Death of the Author

This book took my breath away. I was completely engrossed in it and almost cried at the end. I've read quite a bit of Okorafor's works: Who Fears Death, the Binti series, and the Akata series. They range from good to amazing. This is one of the amazing ones. It's a novel within a novel. It follows Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American in her journey as an author, and the robots and AIs after the end of humanity. At first, I was disturbed by the main character's self-destructive nature, but between her life and that of the characters in her book, I became totally immersed in both. Not only is it a sort of meta-genre book, but it provides intense scrutiny of the writing and publishing industry and a hope for the triumph of art. This book is on my awards watch-list for next year's Hugos.

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