Wow wow wow. Death of the Author is a breathtaking epic from Nnedi Okorafor who weaves in disability, artificial intelligence/automation, fan culture, science fiction, Africanfuturism, and contemporary fiction. Through the novel, we follow Zelu, a disabled, Nigerian professor who is abruptly fired from her professorship while she attends her cousin's wedding. She moves back in her with her mother and father and writes what eventually becomes a blockbuster of a novel, Rusted Robots. The novel intersperses interviews with Zelu's family, chapters of Rusted Robots, and the point of view from Zelu herself. Every piece of this novel works - I got so invested in the story of Rusted Robots and how everything turned out, while also falling for Zelu and all her friends and family who surround her. 

I highly, highly recommend Death of the Author - this is another incredible novel from Okorafor and unlike anything else I've read before. 

Thank you to NetGalley and to William Morrow for the advanced copy.