Binti / Nnedi Okorafor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okorafor, Nnedi, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Binti ; 1.

Binti ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interstellar travel.

Outer space--Fiction.

Outer space.

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.

Human-alien encounters.

Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings.

Interstellar travel--Fiction.

College stories.

Local Subjects:

Outer space--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

College stories.

Science fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

90 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, [2015]

Summary:

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself--but first she has to make it there, alive.

Notes:

"A Tor.com Book"--Title page verso.

"First Edition: September 2015"

"Cover illustration by David Palumbo. Cover design by Christine Foltzer."

Hugo Award and Nebula Award, 2016

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

9780765385253 :

0765385252

OCLC:

913499839

Publisher Number:

99973757208