Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last― featuring a
special alternate cover design on the hardcover case gorgeous sprayed edges and exclusive
endpapers. This breathtaking edition is only available on a limited first print run. "Her best
work yet... about fame and family culture and change the power of story the writer's life...
and robots. This one has it all." -- George R.R. Martin In this exhilarating tale by New York
Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor a disabled Nigerian American woman
pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel but as her fame rises she loses control of the
narrative--a surprisingly cutting yet heartfelt drama about art and love identity and
connection and ultimately what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you've read
before. The future of storytelling is here. Disabled disinclined to marry and more interested
in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law Zelu has always felt like the outcast of
her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when in the middle of her sister's lavish
Caribbean wedding she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and to add insult to
injury her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in
one fell swoop she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like
the quiet literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It's a far-future
epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it
Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel she does not realize she
is about to embark on a life-altering journey--one that will catapult her into literary stardom
but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the
far reaches of space Zelu's novel will change the future not only for humanity but for the
robots who come next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being
written Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the
razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and
Tomorrow . Surprisingly funny deeply poignant and endlessly discussable this is at once the
tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of
storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
