The setting-Lagos, Nigeria-is very much a character unto itself.
Okorafor tells it on a micro level and a macro level she tells it through the filter of technology and the filter of myth. It's the story of a biologist, a soldier, a rapper, an alien ambassador it's also the story of a city and a country and of the entire world. She introduces such a huge cast-some characters who appear throughout the book, others who only appear for a page or two-and every single person she creates feels entirely real. It's so cinematic and so emotionally and psychologically astute.Īnd now it seems that I've veered into the Everything Else portion of the program. And they don't know everything there is to know about people-through their ambassador, they're learning about humankind.Īlso on the first contact end of things: Okorafor goes into how people react to the news of first contact, as individuals, as groups, as nations. They can look human, but their movements are different, their perspective is different, their general energy is different. Like, they aren't just deely-bopper-wearing human beings in green suits. On the first contact end of things: The aliens are ALIEN. She lives in Chicago, where she is a professor of creative writing at Chicago State University.Lagoon is everything I want in a first contact book, and everything I want in a book, period. Nnedi Okorafor is the author of numerous novels and short stories, including Zahrah the Windseeker, which won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, and Who Fears Death, winner of the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. It was like being thrown into the stars.' Īvailable now in trade paperback, ebook, and audiobook download. Together with Ayodele, a visitor from beyond the stars, they must race through Lagos and against time itself in order to save the city, the world.
Wandering Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria's legendary mega-city, they're more alone than they've ever been before. īut when something like a meteorite plunges into the ocean and a tidal wave overcomes them, these three people will find themselves bound together in ways they could never imagine. Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa. Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist.
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