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Binti:home

(Binti #2)

by Nnedi Okorafor

subadult, fantasy

copyright 2017

read in July 2024

rated 5/10: readable if there's nothing else

This is fantasy set in a seemingly science fiction universe

planets, aliens, space travel but the "science" is fantasy. Nothing wrong with that, it is imaginative and very entertaining. Not to be understood. But what it does is clear enough.

Actually, I really like the spaceship  that is going to Earth in order to... give birth :-)

There are multi generational hatreds, superstitions, narrow minds. Well presented and, unfortunately, believable.

Then we discover (spoiler alert) that the primitive tribe at the foot of the totem pole is... keeper and user of ancient secrets and amazing alien technology.

Then the heroine gets access to the high tech and... end of book.

This is one chapter of a continuing saga. It should never have been published without a, to be continued, warning.

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