Binti: Volume 1

Nnedi Okorafor

Sep 2015 · Binti Book 1 · Sold by Tordotcom

About this ebook

"Prepare to fall in love with Binti." —Neil Gaiman

Winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.

Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.

If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.

The Binti Series
Book 1: Binti
Book 2: Binti: Home
Book 3: Binti: The Night Masquerade

PRAISE FOR BINTI

"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 Punzi and From a Whisper

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Ratings and reviews

Enjoyable start to the series of the same name. We are introduced to the main character, who has earned entry into a prestigious university. She is the first of of her people to enter this university. The cultural differences become immediately evident as they make her stand out amongst the other students. As someone who attended school at a young age outside of my own insulated home environment, this resonated with me. Her trip to the campus is made even more challenging as she finds herself deeply embroiled in an existing conflict between the university and members of another culture. The story is well written and the characters have depth and feel very real. The author has done an excellent job of capturing the complex emotions of the main character and make them a driving force in the novel.

I felt a well written desire to continue on this journey. I have nothing but good things to add on the author's behalf. Interesting .. Thank you!

An exellent description of how one should act during dillematic situations and how overcoming natural human instinct could stimulate rationality and therefore promote collective open-mindedness towards and pfilosophy between intellectuals of different ideology. Would defenitely recommend!

About the author

Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her science fiction novella Binti won both Hugo and Nebula awards, her children's book Long Juju Man won the 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.