When I picked up the book, I had not read Ngy of the cropor before. The death of the authorBut, having read only a few pages, I found that I was making a mental mark to add everything that she had ever written to my stack “to read”. Rhorefore The term “African futurism” describes the subcategory of science fiction, which “is more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point of view,” the more “American -centric” aphuturism.
The death of the author This is something like two books in one, telling about the rapid take-off to the glory of the protagonist of the American Nigerian descent Zeleu as the author of an unexpected popular novel. Rusty robotsAnd it transfers us to the mentioned novel, whose action takes place in a deserted society of the future, populated by robots and artificial intelligence.
Zeleu, a disabled writer, for about 30 years, having a large large family, at the beginning of the book is experiencing a difficult period, and she has to fight for the people around her to perceive her seriously when she succeeds on success. She faces constant resistance when she tries something new, such as unmanned vehicles and an exoskeleton that helps to move. The dynamics of the family and the world in which she lives – on the verge of serious changes caused by technological progress – seemed very real, and I became much more interested in their drama than that was played in reality. Rusty robots. But there is a reason for all this, and two narratives are well intertwined, creating an exciting and forcing story to think.