Title: Lagoon
(ConQuesT Author Guest of Honor)
Meeting Location:
Barnes & Noble
#2352, 2nd Floor
11323
W. 95th Street
Overland Park, KS 66214
Publishers Weekly said:
“Alien invasion and mystical gods
meet religious zealotry and political corruption in Okorafor's thrilling hybrid
of SF, fantasy, and horror.”
Plot
Overview from Barnes & Noble:
It’s up to a famous
rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity’s first contact
with an alien ambassador—and prevent mass extinction—in this novel that blends
magical realism with high-stakes action.
After word gets out
on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s
fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,
thieves, and crackpots are trying to control the message on YouTube and on the
streets. Meanwhile, the earth’s political superpowers are considering a
preemptive nuclear launch to eradicate the intruders. All that stands between
seventeen million anarchic residents and death is an alien ambassador, a
biologist, a rapper, a soldier, and a myth that may be the size of a giant
spider, or a god revealed.
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