The Book of Phoenix

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2015
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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. Prequel to 2010 Okorafor. A prequel to this prequel is her 2024 She Who Knows. New York: DAW Books, 2024.

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2015

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DAW Books
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New York
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2015 Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] (b. 1974). The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books. Part 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/ Original story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume Six. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 485-502. PSt

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. Prequel to 2010 Okorafor. A prequel to this prequel is her 2024 She Who Knows. New York: DAW Books, 2024. African American female author of Igbo heritage.

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Original story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume Six. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 485-502. 

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African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo heritage.

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