While the writers for South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and novelist, journalist, and blogger Cory Doctorow have shared their unique perspectives on ChatGPT, I came across this striking and caring statement by "*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer," Nnedi Okorafor about her recent experience with ChatGPT. — Read the rest
A recent tweet from "*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer," Nnedi Okorafor reveals the new cover for the novel Shadow Speaker to All the Galaxies – now more clearly visible through the Harriet Tubman Space Telescope. — Read the rest
"I sometimes write fantasy, but I'm not a 'fantasy author', just call me Nnedi Okorafor."
The Nigerian American writer Nnedi Okorafor has announced that DAW Books will publish a new novella trilogy titled She Who Knows. The first in 2024 and then the two others after. — Read the rest
In the comic book, Laguardia, by "a writer of strange things" Nnedi Okorafor, the airport by the same name—now an intergalactic way-station that is STILL under construction—is the backdrop for an interstellar story of equality, community, and environmental justice. — Read the rest
Tasty teamed up with award-winning sci-fi novelist and Black Panther comics writer Nnedi Okorafor (Black Panther: Long Live the King) to imagine what a signature dish from the fictional African nation Wakanda might be like. Of course, M'Baku would have to make a vegetarian version for himself.
Tony from Starshipsofa writes, "StarShipSofa is very proud to have Hugo winning author Nnedi Okorafor on this week's show (MP3) with her story 'Spider the Artist,' first published in the anthology Seeds of Change. Nnedi Okorafor is the Hugo winningnovelist of Nigeria-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. — Read the rest
Shared Worlds, a non-profit science fiction/fantasy teen writing camp hosted by Wofford College (Spartanburg, South Carolina), has named Nnedi Okorafor the Amazon.com Visiting Writer for 2011. Over the past six years, Okorafor has written several impressive and unique novels for both adult and teen readerships, including Who Fears Death, The Shadow Speaker, and Zahrah the Windseeker.
The Clarion Writer's Workshop is generally considered to be the leading training ground for science fiction and fantasy writers. Not that I'm biased — I attended the program myself in 2013, where I honed my chops under the mentorship of established writers like Cory Doctorow, who attended the program himself when he was younger. — Read the rest
Every musical instrument has a history, an origin story with primary practitioners that were storytellers and sound makers. Every origin story exists within social, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Origin stories are often contested, the facts and circumstances and the meanings ascribed, at the time and after, to those facts and circumstances. — Read the rest
If you are a Star Wars fan, every day is May 4th. I recently let the force choose a book to read from the shelves. Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View has been in my bookcase for a hot minute. — Read the rest
I saw Erykah Badu live with The Roots at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008, touring for the album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). Badu played what I have always assumed was the theremin on several tracks – I do not remember which, but I know one for sure was "The Healer." — Read the rest
Sistah Scifi is an indie bookstore based in Oakland, California that wants to connect readers to sci-fi and fantasy titles authored by Black and Indigenous writers. To do this, they've started to place book vending machines in different cities. Their first two machines were launched last week. — Read the rest
Looper has put together a round-up of 11 fantasy book adaptations coming to the small screen in 2023 and beyond. These include The Power (premiering on March 31), Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death (executive produced by George R.R. Martin), Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, and Madeline Miller's Circe. — Read the rest
Honestly, memoir is an anemic category for these books. These are field guides for time travel and the survival of the earth. The words and stories are confessions and counsel, offerings of honest analysis, reflections, and provocative possibilities for a different tomorrow to anyone willing to listen. — Read the rest
"Black Speculative Art is a creative, aesthetic practice that integrates African diasporic worldviews with science or technology and seeks to interpret, engage, design or alter reality for the re-imagination of the past, the contested present, and to act as a catalyst for the future.
In the days and weeks after the initial US invasion of Iraq in April of 2003, the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and archaeological sites across the country were ransacked. There were no US troops to be found protecting that global cultural heritage, contained within the buildings left to the chaos of "shock and awe." — Read the rest
I was turned on to the genre-splicing British music collective Sault in the Summer of 2020 during the protests against police violence that were organized across the globe. Particularly the joint "Wildfires" from the June 2020 release, "Untitled (Black Is)." — Read the rest
So, I don't know about the soul selling – the market conditions are a bit uncertain these days given the predatory nature of capitalism, the ongoing destruction of the planet in the name of progress and empire, and the sub-poverty minimum wage. — Read the rest
Even when Boing Boing wrote about the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (HDSF) at its launch, in January 2021, the project was already evolving. The HDSF — based on the OED Science Fiction Citations Project, a 2001 effort to crowdsource quotations for the Oxford English Dictionary — is a full-fledged dictionary of SF on historical principles,meaning that every entry is illustrated with contextual quotations showing exactly how a term has been used over time. — Read the rest
