About

Mr B's Emporium couldn't be more thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning author, Nnedi Okorafor, all the way from Arizona to chat to us about her spectacular new novel, Death of the Author.

Death of the Author is a sweeping story about a disabled Nigerian American who writes a science fiction novel that becomes a global phenomenon – but at a price. A tale about family, culture and identity, this blends the tenderness of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow with the ambition of How High We Go in the Dark.

Nnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning bestselling writer of science fiction
and fantasy, and has received a litany of awards including the Hugo Award, Locus Award and World Fantasy Award. Her previous novels include Lagoon, Who Fears Death, and the incredibly popular Binti series. She has books currently being adapted for TV by HBO, Amazon Studies, and 20th Century Fox.

Nnedi will be in conversation with Natasha Pulley, bestselling novelist of many Mr B's faves including The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Kingdoms, The Mars House, and the upcoming The Hymn to Dionysus.

About the book:

The future of storytelling is here.

Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.

In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life – she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.

What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.

Nnedi Okorafor, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, presents a sweeping tale about family, culture and identity, and a breathtaking examination of the relationship between writer and reader . . . and robots. Death of the Author is heartfelt, tender, and an ambitious meta-drama about what makes us human.

"DEATH OF THE AUTHOR reads like three novels in one… or maybe four… about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer's life… and robots. This one has it all" – George R.R. Martin