We can never resist a book within a book, and Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, She Who Knows) has pulled one off brilliantly here: Though Death of the Author begins as the near-future story of a Nigerian American writer’s rise to fame, embedded within it is a sci-fi tale about a robot and AI-ruled Earth. This clever expansion beyond her usual hard sci-fi and fantasy will surely introduce the highly lauded Africanfuturist author to legions of new fans.

William Morrow
9780063445789
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