Binti
2015 science fiction novella by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti the Complete Trilogy ( First published in 2015) by Nigerian - American writer Nnedi Okorafor is a series of science fiction novellas.Binti has won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the 2016 Hugo Award, the 2015 Nebula Award, and the 2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. The 2019 omnibus publication includes the three novellas Binti, Binti: Home, and Binti: The Night Masquerade, as well as the bonus inclusion of the debut short story “Binti: Sacred Fire.”
Quotes
edit- Our ancestral land is life; move away from it and you diminish.”
- Chapter 1)
“You are the pride of your people, child.”
- Chapter 2
- Why are you covered in red greasy clay and weighed down by… ...
We prefer to explore the universe by traveling inward, as opposed to outward.”
- Chapter 4
- We’re Himba. God has already chosen our paths.”
- Chapter 6
- Humans must be killed before they kill us.”
- Chapter 10.
- His anger was rightful, but all… he said was from what he didn’t truly know.”
- Chapter 13.
- Their ship stank. I was sure of it, even if I couldn’t smell it.”
Chapter 15
- You understand, because you truly are what you say you are—a harmonizer.”
- Chapter 18
- Tribal’:… what they called humans from ethnic groups too… ‘uncivilized’ to… send… to… Oomza Uni.”
- Chapter 24
- Those women talked about me, the men probably did too. But none of them knew what I had, where I was going, who I was. Let them gossip and judge. Thankfully, they knew not to touch my hair again. I don’t like war either.”
- Binti, Page 6.
- “It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.”
- Binti
- In your university, in one of its museums, placed on display like a piece of rare meat is the stinger of our chief,’ it said. I wrinkled my face, but said nothing. ‘Our chief is…’ It paused. ‘We know of the attack and mutilation of our chief, but we do not know how it got there. We do not care. We will land on Oomza Uni and take it back. So you see? We have purpose.’”
- Binti, Page 33
