Starbright
Sci-fi
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (Starbright February 2025 Exclusive)
£20.00
About the product
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER . . .
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.
Our Starbright Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:
- An exclusive redesigned cover (by Kels Gottschlich; design by @chattynora)
- Full colour and foil on the hardback (by @olabukoo; design by @chattynora)
- Digitally printed edges (by Kels Gottschlich)
- Illustrated endpapers (front by Kels Gottschlich; back by @olabukoo)
- Signed by the author
- Standalone adult science fiction
- Black disabled FMC
If you like novels within novels and books that make you think, we think you’ll enjoy this one!
Photos by @bookwormgram
Don't be frightened by the title, Nnedi Okorafor is fine... and doing her best work yet. 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
'An epic about love, friendship, and the cost of surviva'l ― Library Journal, starred review
'Connection is the heartbeat of Okorafor's work' ― New York Times
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