Binti Around the World and Ay Yi Yi | Episode 7

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Sentient ships, nano-bots, and mathematical power come together in Nnedi Okorafor’s coming-of-age trilogy, Binti. Okorafor’s trilogy has been greenlit by Hulu and her debut novel, Who Fears Death will also be showing up on HBO. Okorafor is a powerhouse and we will be watching and reading her works aplenty in the near and distant future. Where to buy the book: https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9780756416935 Corrections: The Himba tribe are in the region of Namibia, not Nigeria.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction and fantasy and staying on the
0:05.5	same page in this map red. I'm one of your amazing co-host Amber Wallen. And I'm Ben.
0:12.8	And that's Ben. Before we get started today on discussing this incredible book that we vote red,
0:19.6	we just want to extend a thank you to all of our listeners out there. I've gotten a lot of great
0:24.3	feedback from people in the interwebs on Instagram, on Facebook, or just texting me in
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0:50.0	little bit helps so we can help pay for this microphone, get some better studio settings,
0:53.7	all of that good stuff. So more amazing Sci-Fi Sci news and episodes to come. But we just want to
0:59.1	thank our fans for listening. Okay, Ben, you're ready to discuss this incredible book. Yes,
1:05.4	we read Benty, the complete trilogy. Oh yeah, it took a lot to get through, but we read it. I
1:13.2	haven't read a book in a week in a very long time. A lot? There were three novellas.
1:18.4	Yeah, but it was like 356 pages, like I typically mull over a book for a whole month.
1:25.2	Oh yeah, he do. Because you're also doing like a hundred different things as well.
1:30.9	I agree. So it was a hustle to finish this book, especially with everything going on in the
1:34.9	world. Just to get people context today is November 4th for us. So last night when people were
1:40.0	sipping wine and looking at election results or what the start of the election results, I was just
1:44.5	like hustling to try to finish this book. We're going to be discussing book one of the trilogy,
1:49.2	Benty. There are going to be spoilers. So let's get started. All right, so Benty, the complete
1:55.0	trilogy is written by Netty, a core four. And it is about a young brilliant woman who leaves her
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