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This book won both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for best novella! The book is set primarily on a space craft headed for Oomza University. Binti is the main character and is from the Himba tribe on Earth. She is a math prodigy and she is the first from her tribe to be accepted to Oomza U. Against her mother's advice Binti leaves her family to board spacecraft that will take her from Earthto Oomza.
The school itself is run by the Khoush, the pale-skinned Earthens. Most of the other passengers o ...more
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I feel like I felt the first time I read Octavia Butler, I feel pulled apart and put back together with a new understanding of the world. I have been taken to the future, to another world that is much like my own and shown that we can't escape our pain and wars if we can't see past our differences. Often when I finish books like this a have to hold them, caress them as a way to thank them for the gift they just gave. Okorafar is not a new voice, but hers is beautiful and unique. Binti is a chara
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Inventive #africanfuturism book which is powerful in and of itself, but short enough that it very much feels like the beginning of a larger story. I will absolutely be reading the rest of this series.
I loved this, I really really loved this, but there just wasn't enough to it! I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing this was originally included in an anthology of some sort? In that setting, it would have shone. But as a stand-alone, it just felt unfinished. I wanted more! More backstory, more about the trip, just more more more!
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Waaaayyy too short. I wanted so much more. This is obviously going to be a long series. I barely got a taste of the worlds involved. It felt a little like a prologue. The visual descriptions are beautiful. I can't wait for this to be a movie.
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read 11/3/15
Jul 05, 2018
Isabel
rated it
it was amazing
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Shelves:
scifi,
nerds-of-color
Jan 28, 2021
Maryam
marked it as to-read
