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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