However it is through the connection she retains to her cultural heritage, and the lessons she has learned from her parents, that she is able to save the day. In order to follow her dream, Binti must defy the expectations of her family. However while she is adjusting to her new life, the ship is attacked by the Meduse, a race of jellyfish-like aliens with a grudge against Oomza Uni, and Binti has to use all of her wits and insights to save her own life and prevent interstellar war.Īt its heart Binti is a coming of age story. She travels against the will of her family, amongst people to whom her culture is unknown and not respected. The novella is the story of Binti, a sixteen-year-old girl who is the first of the Himba people to be offered a place at Oomza University, the most prestigious university in the galaxy. Binti is a wondrously original space opera, a coming of age story about balancing tradition with the future and the power of communication. Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti (2015) is easily the most decorated of the Tor novellas, having won the Hugo and the Nebula, and having been nominated for the BSFA, BFA and Locus awards besides. We wash with otjize, a mix of red clay from our land and oils from our local flowers.’ On my people’s land, fresh water, water humans can drink, is so little that we do not use it to bathe as so many others do. ‘I come from a people who live near a small salty lake on the edge of a desert. ‘None of you have ever seen anyone like me,’ I said.
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