Binti
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti is the winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.
If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.
The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade
PRAISE FOR BINTI
"Binti is a supreme read about a sexy, edgy Afropolitan in space! It's a wondrous combination of extra-terrestrial adventure and age-old African diplomacy. Unforgettable!" — Wanuri Kahiu, award-winning Kenyan film director of Punzi and From a Whisper
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I appreciated how Okorafor dealt with racism in a sci-fi context, but I didn't really like the story too much. Lots of murder and mayhem at the beginning. When the main character eventually arrives at her destination, the story plodded along.
So kudos to the author on how she wove the effects of racism into her story, but the story itself was not interesting to me. Others might have a different opinion. Just not my cup of tea.
So kudos to the author on how she wove the effects of racism into her story, but the story itself was not interesting to me. Others might have a different opinion. Just not my cup of tea.
This may not be an entirely objective review.
I don't know if this is just me, maybe this is all readers. But there are some authors whose words become a voice when I read them. To some degree that happens with anything we read. We put together letters into words into sentences strung into stories that speak in our minds. But for me, for some authors it's more. It's a voice, not just that normal reading voice that runs through my mind ninety-nine percent of the time. A voice distinctively different and unique. When I've found authors that resonate like that it's usually pretty consistent and pretty much everything I read by that author speaks in that voice. It's a rare treat, and I find myself drinking up anything that author offers up. Is that just me? Maybe that speaks more to the skill of the author than anything unique in my head. I'd be curious of other readers get this same resonance when reading this story.
Binti was short, a novella. But it was a pure pleasure from first word to last. I've got the rest of the series on order already and am planning on reading as much Nnedi Okorafor as I can find.
I don't know if this is just me, maybe this is all readers. But there are some authors whose words become a voice when I read them. To some degree that happens with anything we read. We put together letters into words into sentences strung into stories that speak in our minds. But for me, for some authors it's more. It's a voice, not just that normal reading voice that runs through my mind ninety-nine percent of the time. A voice distinctively different and unique. When I've found authors that resonate like that it's usually pretty consistent and pretty much everything I read by that author speaks in that voice. It's a rare treat, and I find myself drinking up anything that author offers up. Is that just me? Maybe that speaks more to the skill of the author than anything unique in my head. I'd be curious of other readers get this same resonance when reading this story.
Binti was short, a novella. But it was a pure pleasure from first word to last. I've got the rest of the series on order already and am planning on reading as much Nnedi Okorafor as I can find.
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