A new immersive work of Afrofuturism

Previously I had not read anything from Nnedi Okorafor when I picked up Death of the authorBut after just a few pages, I found a mental note to add everything else I have written to my pile to read. Okorafor He coined the term “Africanfuturismo”, which describes a subcategory of science fiction that is “more directly rooted in culture, history, mythology and the point of view of African” than the most “most” focused on the United States “Afrofuturism.

Death of the author It is like two books in one, following the meteoric ascent of the American Nigerian character Zelu de la Fame as the author of an unexpected novel, Oxidized robotsand bringing that novel, set in a future society without humans inhabited by robots and Ia.

Zelu, a disabled writer from the mid -30 with a large extended family, is going through a difficult patch when the book begins and has to fight to be taken seriously by the people around her when she succeeds during the night. She faces a constant setback while trying new things, such as self -employed cars and an exoskeleton mobility aid. The family dynamic and the world in which he lives, at the cusp of the important changes promoted by technological advances, felt very real, and I invented much more in his drama than in what was being developed in Oxidized robots. But everything is there for a reason, and the two stories bind well to create an immersive and stimulating story.