Remote Control

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Product Details

Price
$19.99  $18.59
Publisher
Tordotcom
Publish Date
Pages
160
Dimensions
5.0 X 8.1 X 0.8 inches | 0.5 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781250772800

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About the Author

Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her children's book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.

Reviews

Riveting from its opening page... lyrical and compelling. --Essence

[Okorafor] has a rare ability to open the reader's mind to various futures while creating complex characters and communities... A captivating world, a tragic tale, and a dangerous future. --Kirkus

A beautiful, sad, enthralling novella set in a futuristic Africa, Remote Control is a refreshing oasis of creativity... I implore you to discover this lovely, captivating story for yourself. --BookPage

Okorafor builds a stunning landscape of futuristic technology and African culture, with prose that will grab readers from the first sentence. --Library Journal starred review

This imaginative, thought-provoking story uses elements of the fantastic to investigate the complexities of gender and community outside of a European, colonial imagination. Readers will be blown away. --Publishers Weekly starred review

More Praise for Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. --Neil Gaiman

The details of [Nnedi's] world-building--including Binti's rich culture of origin, living spaceships, and maths that read almost like music--are complex and fascinating --Veronica Roth

There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. -- Ursula Le Guin

Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy. --NPR on Binti: Home