Who Fears Death

Okorafor, Nnedi. Who Fears Death. New York City: DAW Books, 2910. New York City: Penguin/Random House, 2020. For awards and reprints, and at least one translation, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database at link here.[1] Available also as a Brilliance Audio audiobook from Audible.com.[2]As of this writing, in development as an HBO series,[3] with a script by Aïda Mashaka Croal, who is also executive producer and showrunner.[4] (George R. R. Martin is credited as an executive producer.)

Carol Cooper in The Village Voice notes that the female hero's "style of magic is Nomadic Shaman, not Medieval Mage,"[5] but the book is relevant here primarily because Who Fears Death, as Mark Bould observes, "is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which technology and magic operate side by side" (SFRA Review #311 [Winter 2015]: 17),[6] made more interesting in that the tradition of magic closer to that of the Igbo of Africa than to that of the peoples of Europe.

RDE, finishing, 5Aug21