Renée Ahdieh et al., read by multiple narrators. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 15 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-451-48621-9
A stylistically diverse group of authors commemorate the 40th anniversary of the original Stars Wars film with this anthology of short stories about minor characters from the film. The collection assembles big-name authors from the realms of comics (
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Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Solaris, $15.99 trade paperback (356p) ISBN 978-1781084175
Editors Shurin and Murad collect 22 stories about the shadowy, fiery beings called the djinn in this unusual anthology. One of the best is the seriously creepy “Reap” by Sami Shah, about a group in the New Mexico desert that operates a drone in...
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy, $15.95 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-61986-659-1
This hefty, competent anthology showcases 12 consistently solid short stories, each accompanied by a full-color illustration. Though Farland cites originality, plot, emotional effect, and memorability as criteria for his selections, most of these...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-390-7
Guran presents 20 reprints about postapocalyptic survival, all first published between 2008 and 2012. Scenarios include genetic mutation (Margo Lanagan’s “The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross,” Nnedi Okorafor’s “Tumaki”), the threat of nuclear war (B
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Nnedi Okorafor. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9313-5
Okorafor’s lively, dramatic third and final Binti far-future science fantasy novella (after Binti: Home) finds Binti, the young protagonist, struggling to integrate new perceptions from the recently awakened alien technology in her body. This is an...
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1879-3
The impressive finale to Nebula Award winner Okorafor’s Desert Magician’s Duology (after Shadow Speaker) turns the focus from Ejii Ugabe, the girl who saved the world, to her mysterious companion, Dikéogu Obidimkpa.The story is presented as an audio
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1876-2
Worlds collide in the formerly out-of-print gem that opens Hugo and Nebula Award winner Okorafor’s Desert Magician’s Duology (first published in 2007), revised and expanded into an unputdownable Africanfuturist epic. In 2074 Niger, 15-year-old...
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1609-6
Convenience and comfort come at a cost in this probing, brilliant near-future odyssey from Okorafor (Remote Control). Anwuli Okwudili changed her name to Augmented Organism, or AO, as a nod to the body augmentations she’s used to compensate for her...
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Nnedi Okorafor. Tor.com, $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-250-77280-0
A young girl known as “the adopted daughter of death” comes of age in the electrifying latest from Okorafor (Akata Witch). As a child, Sankofa discovers a mysterious, glowing green seed, which, before her father sells it to the government, gives her
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Nnedi Okorafor. Viking, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-11352-3
A year after his father—respected police chief of Nigerian suburb Kaleria—is murdered and 12-year-old Nnamdi and his mother fall into difficult circumstances, the boy encounters his dad’s ghost. The spirit gives him an Ikenga, an ebony figurine that
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Nnedi Okorafor. TED, $16.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9547-1
Novelist Okorafor (Akata Witch) explains in this eloquent memoir how a harrowing medical experience caused her to reevaluate her potential, realize new goals, and begin writing science fiction. Okorafor has always suffered from scoliosis and decided
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Nnedi Okorafor, Author . DAW $24.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0617-2
Well-known for young adult novels (The Shadow Speaks
; Zahrah the Windseeker
), Okorafor sets this emotionally fraught tale in postapocalyptic Saharan Africa. The young sorceress Onyesonwu—whose name means “Who fears death?”—w
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Nnedi Okorafor. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9310-4
Okorafor picks up her interplanetary adventure story a year after the traumatic events of the Hugo-winning novella Binti. The titular heroine, Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib, is the lone human survivor of a massacre. The jellyfish-like...
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Nnedi Okorafor. S&S/Saga, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4087-5
Alien invasion and mystical gods meet religious zealotry and political corruption in Okorafor's thrilling hybrid of SF, fantasy, and horror. On a January night in Lagos, Nigeria, three strangers cross paths on the beach just before a sonic boom...
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Nnedi Okorafor. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (106p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8446-1
Okorafor's sci-fi novella tackles sprawling ideas with little satisfactory resolution. Binti is a teenage girl from Earth, a member of the marginalized and disrespected Himba culture, and the first of her people to attend the prestigious Oomza...
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1019-3
This haphazard prequel to Okorafor’s postapocalyptic first novel for adults, Who Fears Death, explores the circumstances that led to that apocalypse. Phoenix is a three-year-old biological weapon who looks and acts like a 40-year-old woman. Escaping
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Nnedu Okorafor. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-60701-405-8
In this vibrant collection of speculative fiction, Okorafor (Who Fears Death) proves yet again that she is among the 21st century's most significant and noteworthy Science Fiction authors. The American-born author features her parents' Nigerian...
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Nnedi Okorafor, Viking, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-01196-4
Okorafor (The Shadow Speaker) returns with another successful tale of African magic. Although 12-year-old Sunny is Nigerian, she was born in America, and her Nigerian classmates see her as an outsider. Worse, she's an albino, an obvious target for...
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Nnedi Okorafor, illus. by Mehrdokht Amini. Lantana (Lerner, dist.), $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-9113-7315-5
Okorafor (Akata Witch) brings readers to Nigeria where a girl named Anyaugo awakens in the middle of the night to find a giant chicken occupying the family’s kitchen. With a resplendent coat of feathers in eye-popping oranges, golds, and greens, the
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Nnedi Okorafor, Tana Ford, and James Devlin. Dark Horse/Berger, $19.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-5067-1075-4
The Trump administration’s travel ban gets incisive sci-fi treatment in Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Okorafor’s tale of extraterrestrial immigrants. In a near-future New York, a Nigerian-American doctor named Future has a baby on the way...
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Nnedi Okorafor, John Jennings, and David Brame. Abrams ComicArts, $22.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4355-9
Upon Chioma’s arrival to the remote Nigerian village where her great-aunt and grandma live, heavy, unseasonable rain begins to fall, in this vibrant, succinct graphic adaptation by Jennings (Kindred) and Brame (Baaaad Muthaz) of Okorafor’s short...
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1895-3
Okorafor packs a punch in her She Who Knows series launch, a return to the realm of the World Fantasy Award–winning Who Fears Death. At 13, Najeeba receives “the call,” the psychic summons to the Salt Roads that only male members of the Osu-nu...
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Nnedi Okorafor. DAW, $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-75641-897-7
Skipping ahead many years from the events of She Who Knows, Nebula Award winner Okorafor picks up heroine Najeeba’s life after the loss of her daughter, Onyesonwu. After not using her spiritual powers for the majority of her adult life, Najeeba...
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Nnedi Okorafor. Morrow, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-339114-7
The astonishing latest from Hugo and Nebula award winner Okorafor (Binti) explores what it means to be human through the lens of artistic creation. The narrative toggles between the perspectives of author Zelu Onyenezi-Onyedele in a mostly...
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Nnedi Okorafor, illus. by Tana Ford. First Second, $22.99 hardcover (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-81747-1; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-81748-8
Previous collaborators Okorafor and Ford (LaGuardia) spin an elaborate tale told through the fictionalized perspective of the author’s real-life temperamental and territorial cat Pumpernickel Pickle Periwinkle Chukwu Okorafor, or Periwinkle,...
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