@booklet {10800, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Spider the Artist{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Seeds of Change}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/

}, month = {2008}, pages = {193-215}, publisher = {Prime Books}, address = {[Holicong, PA]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9780809573103}, url = {https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {5975, title = {The Shadow Speaker}, year = {2007}, note = {

A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.

}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Jump at the Sun/Hyperion}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician\’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician\’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} }