Death of the Author with Nnedi Okorafor
What happens when the stories we tell start telling us back?
Join New York Times bestselling author of Who Fears Death, Akata Witch, and Zaharh the Windseeker Nnedi Okorafor, as she presents a sweeping tale of family culture, and identity in her ambitious meta-drama, Death of the Author.
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. 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.
Blending African futurism with twenty-first-century AI paranoia, Nnedi will ask: what if our stories are more alive than we think?
This event will rewire your brain and challenge everything you think you know about storytelling. Bring your questions, curiosity, and willingness to believe in the impossible.
This event is in partnership with Dark Matter and Afrori Books.
“Nnedi Okorafor is doing her best work yet. This one has it all.” George R.R. Martin author of Game of Thrones