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Nnedi Okorafor
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Who Fears Death
has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel! See the full list of winners hereAnd where was I when this awesome news was announced? In a maximum security jail in Chicago visiting one of my students who'd gotten into some trouble. I needed to make sure he was ok. He was. As much as he could be. He’s maintaining.
It was good to see him. He said he was enjoying the latest book... read more »
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Who Fears Death
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Akata Witch
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2011
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The Shadow Speaker
by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author), Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu 3.83 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Zahrah the Windseeker
by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author), Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu 3.98 avg rating — 335 ratings
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2005
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Hello, Moto: A Tor.Com Original
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2011
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Long Juju Man
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2009
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Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 54
by Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author), Gwendolyn Clare, Mark Cole 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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2011
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From The Lost Diary Of Treefrog
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2009
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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Nalo Hopkinson , Uppinder Mehan , Karin Lowachee (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 119 ratings
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2004
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The Way of the Wizard
by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) , Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), George R.R. Martin 3.88 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Spider the Artist (Literature & Fiction)
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an excerpt from Nnedi's science fiction short story "Spider the Artist", which appears in Seeds of Change (an anthology edited by John Joseph Adams, August 2008). Learn more at http://www.seedsanthology.com
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| I listened to the audiobook on a Playaway. I've never been able to get past the first ten minutes of the movie. Saw this in the library and decided to give it a chance. It was nice because I listened to it as I worked out...around lots of people. I c...more | |
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| Ummm..so yeah...I'm, like, NOT, going to review this book. I didn't like it but I can't bear to give a Dark Tower book a small number of stars. This felt like a short story, not the book I've been waiting for since November. A thin short story, at th...more | |
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is on page 120 of 309 of The Wind Through the Keyhole: AW GOD, a flashback within a flashback?! I am officially annoyed. Seriously, what the hell, King. I'm stamping this is my least liked Dark Tower book. It's a book that refuses to move forward. The well of this story has OBVIOUSLY dried and he's squeezing and squeezing, regardless. Better for him to move on and for us fans to just reread the series.
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| I liked the concept of this more than the Hunger Games. The social commentary was harsh, honest and rather disturbing. It gave me something to think about (and fret over). I also really enjoyed reading this type of story with a non-Western setting an...more | |
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| I really enjoyed this. The plot meanders and so does the point of view. But that's the beauty of it. It's a nice slice-of-precolonial-Igbo-life story. It's frank (example, it's normal for men to beat their wives and this is spoken of without judgemen...more | |
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the beginning of a book is VERY important. if you don't hook the reader in the first paragrap...more " |
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| I loved this. The character development was excellent. Each dog (and cat) was lovable in a different way. I also loved how the cat hung out with the dogs yet WASN'T a sellout to his own kid. And the stories were a unique mix of YA and adult. It's tal...more | |
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| Pure awesome. That 3D double splash page had me like, "Whoa!" From then on I was hooked. I had a library copy but immediately recognized this book as a "must own". The animal characters were so realistic- they were loyal to one another, in pain, and...more | |
“Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker
“It's ok to care about what other people think, but you should give a little more weight to what you, yourself, think...The habit of thinking is the habit of gaining strength. You're stronger than you believe.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker
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Still looking for your books in Cameroon and Senegal. It is just not fair!!Hi Nnedi! great job. Can't wait anymore..I will take greater actions!! (^_^)
