Death of the Author

""Don't be frightened by the title. Nnedi Okorafor is fine... and doing her best work yet. Death of the Author reads like three novels in one, or maybe four, about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer's life... and robots. This one has it all."" -- George R.R. Martin ""I was captivated by the story--and the many stories-within-the-story--of this ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself."" -- Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure ""Nnedi Okorafor is so ferociously talented that we are starting to see she cannot be boxed into any category or genre. Her new novel, Death of the Author, is a deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones."" -- Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels ""There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes."" -- Ursula K. Le Guin ""[Her work is] irresistible to readers. Her nearly two dozen works of fiction have earned Okorafor a slew of honors--four Hugos, a Nebula, a World Fantasy Award. And a new generation of American storytellers who explicitly use their African heritage, history and mythology to inspire their work have followed in her wake, including Tomi Adeyemi, Ayana Gray, Jordan Ifueko and Namina Forna. . . . Connection is the heartbeat of Okorafor's work."" -- New York Times, 12 African Artists Leading a Culture Renaissance Around the World ""Absolutely brilliant. My heart and guts are all turned inside out."" -- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars, on Who Fears Death ""It's a cumulative narrative, a slow burn that builds in emotional urgency even as the scope of Okorafor's worldbuilding bursts into something breathtakingly vast."" -- NPR on Remote Control ""Suspenseful, immersive, and chillingly relevant. Another stunning feat of imagination from Nnedi Okorafor."" -- Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, on Like Thunder ""Fresh, original, and smart. We need more writers like her."" -- Patrick Rothfuss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind, on Akata Witch ""A compact gem . . . A visual, suspenseful ride."" -- USA Today on Binti ""Both wondrously magical and terribly realistic."" -- The Washington Post on Noor ""Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it . . . evocative and sharply elegant in its economy... This is crucial, necessary work."" -- NPR, Amal El-Mohtar, on the Binti trilogy