In this exhilarating tale byNew York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrativea surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything youve read before.

The future of storytelling is here.

Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sisters lavish Caribbean wedding, shes unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. Its a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls itRusted Robots.

When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journeyone that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelus novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.

A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written,Death of the Authoris a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary ofYellowfacewith the heartfelt humanity ofTomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.

About the Author

Nnedi Okoraforis the author of multiple award-winning andNew York Timesbestsellers, includingDeath of the Author, the Binti trilogy,Who Fears Death, andLagoon, currently in development at Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment. She has won every major prize in speculative fiction, including the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Eisner Awards; multiple Hugo Awards; and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Born in Cincinnati to Igbo Nigerian immigrant parents, she now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with her daughter, Anyaugo.

• Language : English
• Print length : 448 pages
• Item Weight : 1.23 pounds
• Dimensions : 6.44 x 1.39 x 9.17 inches