GODDESSES READ!
Join the AGOG Book Club for a discussion of:
"Mother of Invention" by Nnedi Okorafor
Sunday, April 11th, 7pm CT / 8pm ET
Book Club meetings are VIRTUAL.
You can find the story online for FREE.
Read the story online at Slate.com
Listen to the story on LeVar Burton's podcast
About the story:
"Mother of Invention" is a short story by Nnedi Okorafor.
A young woman in a future Nigeria finds herself in a deadly pollen storm, alone but for her smart home. Originally published in Slate as part of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. (From Goodreads)
About the author:
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults. Her works include WHO FEARS DEATH (in development at HBO into a TV series), the BINTI novella trilogy, THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, the AKATA books and LAGOON. She is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel ZAHRAH THE WINDSEEKER won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Her next novel, IKENGA, will be in stores August 2020.
Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including BLACK PANTHER: LONG LIVE THE KING and WAKANDA FOREVER (featuring the Dora Milaje) and the SHURI series, an Africanfuturist comic series LAGUARDIA (from Dark Horse) and her short memoir BROKEN PLACES AND OUTER SPACES. Nnedi is also cowriter the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s WILD SEED with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu. Nnedi holds a PhD (literature) and two MAs (journalism and literature). She lives with her daughter Anyaugo and family in Illinois.