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Who Fears Death
- 401 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2010
- 18 editions
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1 About this book
Who Fears Death is a science fantasy novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, published in 2010 by DAW, then an imprint of Penguin Books. It was awarded the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, as well as the 2010 Carl Brandon Kindred Award "for an outstanding work of speculative fiction dealing with race and ethnicity." Okorafor wrote a prequel, the novel The Book of Phoenix, published by DAW in 2015.
The novel takes place in a post-apocalyptic Africa, where the light-skinned Nuru oppress the dark-skinned Okeke.
In 2023, Okorafor announced an upcoming novella trilogy which would serve as a prequel and sequel to Who Fears Death and would focus on the life of Najeeba, Onyesonwu's mother. The first novella, She Who Knows, was published in 2024.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: fantasy, dystopian fiction, and magic.
- Magic
- Africa
- Fantasy
- Dystopian fiction
- Genocide
- Single women
- Mothers and daughters
2 About Nnedi Okorafor
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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