THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR •
Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more! “This one has it all.” — George
R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful
timely 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 contemporary fiction
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 of stunning Afrofuturism 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. “An ambitious inventive tribute to the power
of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick New York Times bestselling author of The Measure “A
deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Pulitzer
Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels "There’s more vivid
imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
