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Lagoon
- 320 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 2014
- 7 editions
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1 About this book
Lagoon is an Africanfuturist first contact novel by Nnedi Okorafor (2014, Hodder & Stoughton; 2015, Saga Press/Simon & Schuster). It has drawn much scholarly attention since its publication, some of which was written before Okorafor's important clarification that her work is "Africanfuturist" rather than "Afrofuturist." In 2014 it was chosen as an honor list title for the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
Lagoon originated as a screenplay Okorafor wrote for Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, after both were frustrated with "abysmal stereotyping" of Nigerians in the South African film District 9.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: fantasy, science fiction, and the end of the world.
- Nigeria
- Fantasy
- Science fiction
- Adventure
- End of the world
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Human-alien encounters
- Biologists
2 About Nnedi Okorafor
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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