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and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review 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. 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 .
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imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
