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Remote Control Hardcover – 30 March 2021
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- Publisher : Tor Books (30 March 2021)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 125077280X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250772800
- Reading age : 13 years and up
- Dimensions : 13.34 x 1.68 x 21.21 cm
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Riveting from its opening page... lyrical and compelling. --Essence
Once again the incomparable Nnedi Okorafor has written a thought-provoking and visionary tale of fantastic Black girl empowerment futurism. --Ms. MagazineEpisodic and organic, the story winds along with a limber rhythm that allows every rich detail of Sankofa's surreal world to surface. It's a cumulative narrative, a slow burn that builds in emotional urgency even as the scope of Okorafor's worldbuilding bursts into something breathtakingly vast. --NPR Thrilling and surprising all the way through. --The New Scientist Okorafor's star continues to blaze brightly. --Shelf Awareness starred review [Okorafor] has a rare ability to open the reader's mind to various futures while creating complex characters and communities... A captivating world, a tragic tale, and a dangerous future. --Kirkus I loved so many things about Okorafor's book. The futuristic details have wit, energy and brilliance, but there is also genuine depth to the narrative: a serene, folktale-ish cadence that feels timeless. --bookreporter
As the winner of Nebula and Hugo awards, Okorafor has been embraced by the field, and in Remote Control she takes the acclaim and uses it -- in an assured manner -- to radically undermine the stories that the world tells to manifest its power. --L.A. Review of Books
A beautiful, sad, enthralling novella set in a futuristic Africa, Remote Control is a refreshing oasis of creativity... I implore you to discover this lovely, captivating story for yourself. --BookPage Okorafor builds a stunning landscape of futuristic technology and African culture, with prose that will grab readers from the first sentence. --Library Journal starred review This imaginative, thought-provoking story uses elements of the fantastic to investigate the complexities of gender and community outside of a European, colonial imagination. Readers will be blown away. --Publishers Weekly starred review Full of emotional depth and resonance, this is beautiful. --The Big Issue
Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning new sci-fi novella set in a near-future Ghana. Andoh is perfectly in tune with Okorafor's compelling story. --AudioFile Bewitching. --The Philadelphia Inquirer More Praise for Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. --Neil Gaiman The details of [Nnedi's] world-building--including Binti's rich culture of origin, living spaceships, and maths that read almost like music--are complex and fascinating --Veronica Roth There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. -- Ursula Le Guin Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy. --NPR on Binti: Home
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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in this tale of community and female empowerment by <i>Binti</i>'s Nnedi Okorafor
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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in this tale of community and female empowerment by Binti's Nnedi Okorafor
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NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com novella, <i>Binti</i>, won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; her children's book, <i>Long Juju Man</i>, won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and her adult novel, <i>Who Fears Death</i>, was a Tiptree Honor Book.
About the Author
NNEDI OKORAFOR, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her Tor.com novella, Binti, won the 2015 Hugo and Nebula Awards; her children's book, Long Juju Man, won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa; and her adult novel, Who Fears Death, was a Tiptree Honor Book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Vie et mort
Reviewed in France on 13 February 2021Verified Purchase
L’important c'est la survie un don peut-être mortel mais la vie est une dure réalité. Mais que d’espoir dans cette solitude voulue
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Elisha
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sankofa loves spiders.
Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2021Verified Purchase
Another wonderful story from my favorite writer. It's not an easy story. It's full of complications, mystery, feelings. The main character is only a little girl when we meet her. She loves trees, being alone and spiders. Something happens which changes everything. She becomes truly alone and feared--for good reason: she has become the adopted daughter of Death. How can she wend her way through that?
There is so much here: her power; her fox; her cat; her love of Fanta orange pop; her relationship with technology, her need to walk wherever she goes; her period; her relationships with Africa, with America, with corporations--of course, with death . . . and, more importantly, life.
One thing I longed for here, something essential in most of Ms. Okorofor's stories: a best friend. In 'Who Fears Death' Onyesonwu has many friends, female and male, young and old. In 'Shadow Speaker' Ejii has Dikeogu. In 'Zahrah the Windseeker' Zahrah has Dari. In 'Akata Witch' Sunny has Orlu, Sasha and Chichi. In 'Ikenga,' Nnamdi has the marvelous Chioma. I'm not going to reference all the books. (I may have left out some friends or even misnamed them: I'm writing this from my memory of these books.) It's different in 'Remote Control.' The title could have been 'Who Befriends Death?' Some people do befriend her--and she allows it--but not for very long.
I feel sadness for Sankofa (Fatima). She is so young and lonely, even though she doesn't mind being alone. There is much to love in Sankofa. And there is hope.
Did I mention she really likes spiders?
There is so much here: her power; her fox; her cat; her love of Fanta orange pop; her relationship with technology, her need to walk wherever she goes; her period; her relationships with Africa, with America, with corporations--of course, with death . . . and, more importantly, life.
One thing I longed for here, something essential in most of Ms. Okorofor's stories: a best friend. In 'Who Fears Death' Onyesonwu has many friends, female and male, young and old. In 'Shadow Speaker' Ejii has Dikeogu. In 'Zahrah the Windseeker' Zahrah has Dari. In 'Akata Witch' Sunny has Orlu, Sasha and Chichi. In 'Ikenga,' Nnamdi has the marvelous Chioma. I'm not going to reference all the books. (I may have left out some friends or even misnamed them: I'm writing this from my memory of these books.) It's different in 'Remote Control.' The title could have been 'Who Befriends Death?' Some people do befriend her--and she allows it--but not for very long.
I feel sadness for Sankofa (Fatima). She is so young and lonely, even though she doesn't mind being alone. There is much to love in Sankofa. And there is hope.
Did I mention she really likes spiders?
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Wonderful!
Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2021Verified Purchase
I had a real adjustment in starting to read/listen to this book, but I knew it was me and not the book. It was so different from other novels I've read: Afrofuturistic, voice of a young girl, shorter and narrower storytelling, on and on. As the pages turned, my heart warmed and my eyes lit up. Author Nnedi Okorafor takes you completely in the world of this little girl, as she turned into an adolescent and young adult, feeling tragedy and hope and survival just as she would. It is almost as if young Fatima/Sankofa wrote the book herself. That is skill and artistry. She describes her father, mother, brother and grandfather just as I would think my own young daughter would - with an artistic mastery that communicates the subtle tones of unconditional love and naive, unanswerable questions. And this is one book greatly enhanced by listening on Audible - the narration is absolutely perfect. I could listen to narrator Adjoa Andoh speak all day long. I could go on and on - I could write a book about this book! Read this book. Read it now. You will be happy you did.
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melissa mellis
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Series?
Reviewed in the United States on 1 February 2021Verified Purchase
🪐Fatima AKA Sankofa plagued by Malaria never got to enjoy her childhood as other small children did. Sick every few months, nature became her close confidant. The large shea tree that grew in her backyard brought her great comfort and doubled as playground. Discovering the pleasure of dirt was next level for Fatima.
🪐However, the endearment she has for the constellations is incomparable. Her youthful enchantment leads her to fancy herself a starwriter. She gives planets names all her own. Palm kernel, white spark, owusu, and spider web.
🪐Never could she imagine that her life would change forever from the place that held her heart. On the night that the sky was dazzled with green streaks her family were in awe at the sight. As she sits high on the shoulders of her companion she notices that a streak has fallen from the sky and landed at the feet of her friend. She scrambles down in search of what could be there. A small egg a seed perhaps? What Fatima finds changes her life! If becoming, an orphan is not enough, Fatima becomes the adopted daughter of the Angel of death.
This was a good eye brow furred read and would recommend to lovers of sci-fi! However, I NEED MORE! Are the streets saying that there will be series? So many questions. I read Binti before reading this and this one has definitely catapulted Okorafor to the top of my SciFi favs. I am a new fan of Okorafor and henceforth STAN with all that she writes. I now have all her backlist and now sit in anticipation for the HBO MAX adaptation of Who Fears Death.
🪐However, the endearment she has for the constellations is incomparable. Her youthful enchantment leads her to fancy herself a starwriter. She gives planets names all her own. Palm kernel, white spark, owusu, and spider web.
🪐Never could she imagine that her life would change forever from the place that held her heart. On the night that the sky was dazzled with green streaks her family were in awe at the sight. As she sits high on the shoulders of her companion she notices that a streak has fallen from the sky and landed at the feet of her friend. She scrambles down in search of what could be there. A small egg a seed perhaps? What Fatima finds changes her life! If becoming, an orphan is not enough, Fatima becomes the adopted daughter of the Angel of death.
This was a good eye brow furred read and would recommend to lovers of sci-fi! However, I NEED MORE! Are the streets saying that there will be series? So many questions. I read Binti before reading this and this one has definitely catapulted Okorafor to the top of my SciFi favs. I am a new fan of Okorafor and henceforth STAN with all that she writes. I now have all her backlist and now sit in anticipation for the HBO MAX adaptation of Who Fears Death.
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Zombie Inkpot
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting
Reviewed in the United States on 4 February 2021Verified Purchase
Not the parasitic body horror Tor promised, nor even science fiction, but an interesting folktale about fear of female power and understanding where you are coming from in order to know where you are going.
Rich in symbolism, the story of Fatima who becomes Sankofa is moving in how it relates to an orphaned girl burdened with a terrible purpose.
I loved the premise for this story and the setting, but I found the writing kept me at a distance from the characters for most of the tale until the very end.
Rich in symbolism, the story of Fatima who becomes Sankofa is moving in how it relates to an orphaned girl burdened with a terrible purpose.
I loved the premise for this story and the setting, but I found the writing kept me at a distance from the characters for most of the tale until the very end.