TY - ABST T1 - Noor Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York SN - 978-0756416096 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.

PB - Dark Horse Comics CY - Milwaukie, OR N1 -

Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019

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Illus. Tana Ford. Colorist Hames Devlin. Letterer Sal Cipriano

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother of Invention" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) ED - Stacey Higgenbotham KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html. N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.

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Illus. Shyama Golden

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rusties" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) A1 - Wanuri Kahui (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Female author KW - Kenyan author AB -

The story is set in an African future where robot traffic police with ever-more-enhanced AI capabilities ended the traffic chaos in cities but also could access all personal data from cell phones. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 121 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Binti Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which a young girl of a small African tribe who has exceptional mathematical skills and the ability to bring people together is admitted to the most prestigious university in the universe. In this volume, she helps to end a long-standing war between humans and medusae. See also Binti: Home. New York: Tor.com, 2016 in which Binti returns home accompanied by a medusa with the novel focusing on Binti’s troubled relations with her family and the other tribes in the area, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. The third volume of the trilogy, Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor.com, 2018. in which war breaks out on Earth because one tribe tries, unsuccessfully to kill the medusa. 

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Phoenix Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A young woman in the U.S. who had been genetically modified and raised with other genetically modified children escapes from her keepers and travels to Africa and her actions transform both Africa and the U.S. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lagoon Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Poison Fish" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series PB - WBEZ 91.5 Radio CY - Chicago, IL UR - https://soundcloud.com/afterwater/after-water-ep-1-poison-fish ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Fears Death Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change. A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as “The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/ 

PB - DAW CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spider the Artist” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/ N1 -

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/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shadow Speaker Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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.

PB - Jump at the Sun/Hyperion CY - New York N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zahrah the Windseeker Y1 - 2005 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend's snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively. A related story is "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Scarabs Multiply" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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