'Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. As a result, her heroism and vulnerabilities grab our attention, holding tight until the end.' - USA Today From the start she is special and destined for greater things, but without knowing the tests that will challenge her resilience. And the heroine, Binti, invites us along to participate in her secret mission. Nnedi Okorafor efficiently and effectively uses the short format to create a visual, suspenseful ride. ' Binti is a compact gem of adventure, bravery and other worlds. ' opens up Binti's tale in astonishing ways, while provocatively exploring questions of identity and kinship.' - Chicago Tribune 'Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy.What Binti: Home says, ultimately, is that traveling the galaxy is relatively easy compared to understanding ourselves and each other-and that this is crucial, necessary work.' -NPR And eventually, she must return home to test the strength of the fragile peace she worked so hard to win.Ĭollected now for the first time in omnibus form-and introducing a new Binti story-follow Binti's journey in this groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy. For this lone Himba woman, now bonded with a Medusa and forever changed by this bond, still must find a way to survive and thrive at Oomza University amid swirling interspecies biases. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace.īut even if Binti achieves this remarkable feat, it's not the end of her story.

There is more to the history of the Medusae-and their war with the Khoush-than first meets the eye.

Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey.īut everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University.