Hey y’all! In contrast to Throwback Thursday, I like to use Fridays to look forward to an upcoming release that I’m excited about! Today’s is
Expected Release: November 9, 2021
Why wait on this one?
- AO is mostly a robot after her weird AF birth and a further accident that basically meant she had to go robot or die. I am so pumped about a futuristic cybernetically-enhanced-human story. The fact that the blurb starts with her parents hoping they miscarried so she wouldn’t be born because “she was wrong” even as an embryo… what on earth is the deal with this girl? I’m absolutely riveted and can’t wait to find out.
- I imagine with metal limbs you probably get pretty strong and basically impervious to most pain. Which could easily lend itself to criminal dealings because hey, it’s probably super simple compared to the perils of weakling fleshy bodies. I don’t know if AO is evil, or even tempted, but it sure seems like the rest of the world is convinced she is. And as for her being on the run with a societal labeled madman? Holy crap am I thrilled and burning with curiosity over what could have possibly happened to frame them these ways!
- The setting sounds like it will have so much life it will become a character of its own. Deserts seem to draw me in as they’re simultaneously barren and bursting.
- Nnedi Okorafor is also the author of Binti which I somehow have still not read, but am similarly interested in and curious about. Given that I’ve been attracted to multiple books by this author, I think it’s safe to assume I generally like their ideas and will probably be pretty into this.
Summary
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt…natural, and that’s putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was wrong. But she lived. Then came the car accident years later that disabled her even further. Yet instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, as freakish, unnatural, even the work of the devil, AO embraces all that she is: A woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong.
Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. In a world where all things are streamed, everyone is watching the reckoning of the murderess and the terrorist and the saga of the wicked woman and mad man unfold. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels in the fact that the future sometimes isn’t so predictable. Expect the unaccepted.
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