There are ideas and themes connecting them all, and they are suffused with Okorafor’s concept of Africanfuturism. So as far as time and generations go, she wrote them in reverse order. And before those three books, she wrote the Binti series, in which Africans go to the stars in a far future. Remote Control is the closest to our own time, set a few decades from now. First, she wrote Who Fears Death, then to explore the origins of that world, wrote The Book of Phoenix. She says that this is a prequel to a prequel, and that the three books were written backwards in time. I was completely captivated by this short novel from that masterful opening to its last sentence, but, as Okorafor describes Remote Control, there is a much broader context to this and most of her other books.
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