“It is me,” she called. “Death has come to visit.” Those are the first words we hear from our protagonist in author Nnedi Okorafor’s latest work, Remote Control.
Set in a near-future Ghana, the sci-fi novella centers on Sankofa, a pre-teen who becomes an avatar of death after a chance encounter with a mysterious artifact. Her new powers leave her both worshipped and feared, as she journeys to discover what made her this way — and whether she can ever regain her lost identity.
Okorafor is the author of more than two dozen books, comics and short stories. Two of her most popular works — Who Fears Death and the Binti trilogy — have been optioned by HBO and Hulu. She’s also writing an adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed for Amazon.
>We talk to Nnedi Okorafor about sci-fi, solitude and our pandemic year.
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