Tag Archives: Nnedi Okorafor

Reading Well: The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

You may have noticed that I usually don’t read mutli-volume entries in order. N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season [2015], The Obelisk Gate [2016], and The Stone Sky [2017]) is so good it made me break that rule, and … Continue reading

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Reading Well: Binti: Home & Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor

These two books complete the trilogy started with Binti, and easily make Nnedi Okorafor the most reviewed writer here on Reading Well. Certainly, I am a fan, but that’s also a product of Okorafor’s tendency to write in what are … Continue reading

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Reading Well: Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor

We are all about to be submerged by a tidal wave of Nnedi Okorafor. Who Fears Death (read before I started Reading Wells, and highly recommended) is in production by HBO, her Binti series is a critical favorite, etc. The third novel to be … Continue reading

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Reading Well: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti (2015) is the second science fiction book by Nnedi Okorafor to hit Reading Well (The Book of Phoenix was the first; Lagoon will be the third sometime over the next few months). Book may be an overstatement: Binti is a novella at most, a slim … Continue reading

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Reading Well: The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor is an important figure in science fiction. She is working to create not just science fiction by an African writer, but an African science fiction. That’s a huge, complex, messy, inaccurate, and unfair statement, and has far more … Continue reading

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