{"id":51348,"date":"2024-08-18T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51348"},"modified":"2024-11-17T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:36:44","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-binti-the-complete-trilogy-by-nnedi-okorafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/08\/18\/%f0%9f%93%9a-binti-the-complete-trilogy-by-nnedi-okorafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:871,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/bafcb622-dcf1-4e53-89fa-bf925158f6e3&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220815174211\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/bafcb622-dcf1-4e53-89fa-bf925158f6e3&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 15:02:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 11:22:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 15:11:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 03:11:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 19:40:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 04:04:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 04:04:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>56\/2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/bafcb622-dcf1-4e53-89fa-bf925158f6e3\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating collection of novellas following Binti, a young Himba woman, as she leaves her traditional home to journey to a galactic university to study math, only to find herself the sole survivor of an attack and bonded in a mysterious way to one of her attackers. The settings and events combined the traditional lifestyle of the Himba people with far-future technology, living ships, and all manner of alien races, and with some serious questions of prejudice and how people see unfamiliar others as more primitive. I really enjoyed this, and am looking forward to exploring more of Okorafor&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/no_b-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Binti\" title=\"no_b.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da;: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: I really enjoyed this, and am looking forward to exploring more of Okorafor&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5940,5941],"class_list":["post-51348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-binti","tag-nnedi-okorafor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51447,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51348\/revisions\/51447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}