Binti - BokDraken

Pocketbok, 94 sidor

Publicerades 22 september 2015 av Tor.com.

ISBN:: 978-0-7653-8525-3
OCLC-nummer:: 913499839
ISFDB-ID:: 1888986

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.

Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.

If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within …

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.

Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti’s stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.

If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.

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Björn recenserade Binti av Nnedi Okorafor (Binti, #1)

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I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight. (Withnail & I)

All kidding aside (and I'm not even sure I'm kidding, what with the "baldhead" reference and having read a novel centered on Bob Marley just before this one), the idea of natural black hair as a way to communicate is a nice one, I just wish there was more a bit more plot to the story. It feels like it could have done more either by stretching its legs over more than 90 pages, or by trowing in an unexpected turn or five. But I definitely want to read more of Okorafor.

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