Praise for Nnedi Okorafor and the Binti trilogy
Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. Prepare to fall in love with Binti. –Neil Gaiman,
New York Times bestselling author of
American Gods
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 wonderful, and the details of her world-building – including Binti's rich culture of origin, living spaceships, and maths that reads almost like music – are complex and fascinating –Veronica Roth
Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in
Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy. –NPR
The prose is vivid and unadorned, the pacing strong, and the novella as a whole, deeply compelling. I enjoyed it. I hope Okorafor writes more. –
Locus
[
Binti: Home] opens up Binti's tale in astonishing ways, while provocatively exploring questions of identity and kinship. –
The Chicago Tribune Nnedi Okorafor's imagination and worldbuilding are unparalleled, as are the heartfelt emotional struggles she creates. –Jim C. Hines, author of
Blood of Heroes and the Goblin Quest trilogy
Binti is a supreme read about a sexy, edgy Afropolitan in space! It's a wondrous combination of extra-terrestrial adventure and age-old African diplomacy. Unforgettable!–Wanuri Kahiu, award winning Kenyan film director of
Pumzi and
From a Whisper Okorafor's impressive inventiveness never flags. – Gary K. Wolfe on
Lagoon