Binti, the complete trilogy: Binti ; home ; the night masquerade : Binti Series, Books 1-3

There's something of an art to the curbside literary find—keeping mental note of what blocks regularly put out classics & which stoops are a rotating lineup of self-help tomes or dense research textbooks, as though graduate students are the only building inhabitants. But sometimes luck is simply on your side, such as my recent stumble upon a copy of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor, 2015) in a box of odds & ends just after making a mental note to make a trip to the local library branch or bookshop for that very title. The age-old story of a girl leaving home for the first time receives a futurist bend here as the main character, Binti, leaves behind not only the comforts of the familiar but breaks with traditions entirely to pursue something grander in the stars. Naturally, this earnest desire proves treacherous. But rather than Okorafor going the route of space opera hijinks, she folds the reader further & further into the internal battle of her titular character. In a matter of some 90 pages stakes are raised to intense heights, whole cultures are rendered clear, & it all comes to an end just when you don't want it to: a story which stands complete on its own yet leaves you longing to stay in this world. Luckily two more installments complete the cycle, & while they’ve yet to materialize on a stoop near me, they’re on shelves wherever books are sold. — Arimeta Diop, Vanity Fair editorial assistant Binti ©2015 -- Binti: Home ©2017 -- Binti: the night masquerade ©2018 -- Binti: Sacred fire ©2019. Includes a brand-new Binti story! Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. There is more to the history of the Medusae--and their war with the Khoush--than first meets the eye. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace. Collected now for the first time in omnibus form, follow Binti's story in this groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination. There is more to the history of the Medusae--and their war with the Khoush--than first meets the eye. If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace."--Provided by publisher It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations of conflict can human and Meduse ever learn to truly live in harmony?