“That’s one of the functions of it,” says Okorafor, adding with a chuckle. Science fiction, its fans and readers might argue, has been calling our attention to problems that are on the horizon for a long time. So any futures that we’re writing have to include this.” “This is not science fiction anymore this is now. “I had that thing that almost every science fiction writer who is writing something set in the future has to contend with,” says Okorafor by phone from Chicago, referring to how a frequent premise of science fiction - a pandemic - had become a reality. The award-winning author of the Binti trilogy, the Akata series and works such as “Lagoon” and “Who Fears Death,” Okorafor was finishing up edits on “Remote Control” during a COVID-19 lockdown. In her latest work, “Remote Control,” author Nnedi Okorafor notes the 2020 pandemic in passing, referring to it as a moment in history that’s being recalled years later in a fictional future.
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