AfroSF is out for the Kindle! »
It has such cool names as Nnedi Okorafor, and OUR FRIEND COSMICYORUBA IS IN IT TOO!!!!!
#nnedi okorafor
Nsibidi West African Symbols »
Nsibidi symbols play a role in Who Fears Death!
O HAI GUISE IM ALIVE
- I GOT SUCKED INTO LIEK REDDIT AND MINECRAFT AND SHIT
- AND MISSED POSTING RLY IMPORTANT SHIT LIKE ANDREA HAIRSTON WINNING THE TIPTREE
- AND THE NEBULA NOMINEES ARE OUT BECAUSE THE NEBULAS ARE COMING UP REAL SOON AND ALL KINDS OF COOL PPL AND BOOKS AND STUFF GOT NOMINATED LIKE N. K. JEMISIN, ALIETTE DE BODARD, E. LILY YU, NNEDI OKORAFOR, GREG VAN EEKHOUT, AND ATTACK THE BLOCK (WHICH WILL TOTALLY LOSE OUT TO ANOTHER FUCKING DOCTOR WHO EPISODE BUT WHATEVER).
- I WILL BE TOO BROKE TO GO TO WISCON
- AND PROBABLY TOO BUSY DOING COOL SHIT IN TORONTO
- BUT ANYWAY, TO THE REAL REASON I CAME BACK TO TUMBLR
- I JUST NEEDED SOMEONE WHO WOULD UNDERSTAND WHEN I FEEL THE NEED TO SPEAK IN ALLCAPS AND BULLET POINTS AND SAY
- LOL. WHITE. FEMINISTS.
DC is reviving their sci-fi comics anthology Mystery in Space with a fantastic lineup, including Nnedi Okorafor… »
This looks really good and might actually get me into reading comics again. I always did like a lot of Vertigo stuff.
The success of “District 9” has paved the way for more African-made sci-fi movies which all sound better than “District 9”. »
Zoo City (an adaptation of Lauren Beukes’s book), Tok Tokkie and The Windmill are all South African projects; I dunno about the Who Fears Death movie, which is based off a book by a Nigerian-American author, has an American producer and Kenyan director, and is set in far-future Sudan.
Via io9.
Nnedi Okorafor wins a trophy that is a statuette of a notorious racist, deals with it »
A new story by Nnedi Okorafor, “Hello, Moto”, with art by Jillian Tamaki, up at Tor!
With the wig finally off, Coco and Philo felt more distant to me. Thank God.
Even so, because it was sitting beside me, I could still see them. Clearly. In my head. Don’t ever mix juju with technology. There is witchcraft in science and a science to witchcraft. Both will conspire against you eventually…
“holy shit!!!!! chineke, oooooooo!!!!! :-D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
– /whispers/** Do you think Nnedi Okorafor knows she won Best Novel yet?
Tor.com » Announcing the 2011 World Fantasy Award winners! »
And Best Novel goes to a very deserving Nnedi Okorafor for Who Fears Death.
(There were six nominees, of whom four are women, and three of them women of colour. Awesome!)
Cold Iron & Rowan-Wood » Nnedi Okorafor — Who Fears Death »
A lovely, thoughtful review. Via Nnedi Okorafor on Twitter.
Okorafor easily resists the bog-standard “science and rationalism bad, living in harmony with the environment and intuitive magic good” approach, and undramatically weaves in realistic and useful high technology where it’s appropriate. By European fantasy standards, this is a dystopian future; coin-sized computers and weather-gel treated clothing are sold from open stalls in dusty markets, and slaves carry heavy loads along roads thronged with bio-fuel scooters. I’m rather reluctant to use the word “dystopia”, though, because that implies something that doesn’t exist already; this sort of complex intersection of technology levels, social conditions, traditional practices, and the future is already happening all over the world, and has been for quite some time.
