Scarce Signed African Futurism
The Shadow Speaker
Notes: The second book from this noted science fiction / fantasy writer who incorporates her Nigerian heritage into her work, a trend that is reinvigorating and internationalizing the genre. This novel is set in Nigeria in 2070 in a post-nuclear war world and features a fourteen-year-old Muslim girl as the narrator. Okorafor has won many prizes for her writing, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award.
Edition + Condition: First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed by the author, "To Tony and Maria, I hope this novel takes you to new and wonderful places! Nnedi Okorafor." Books signed by Okorafor are notably uncommon. As she wrote on Twitter in 2018, "I’ve never done a book tour anywhere, heh. Not in my entire writing career." This is perhaps because of a spinal chord injury that limits her mobility.
Publication: New York: Jump at the Sun / Hyperion, 2007.
ISBN: 9781423100331
Item No: #306988
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