![]() I prefer to stay with one character), there's a lot of Pidgin English, and it's got aliens in Lagos. It's biting political satire, creative, literary, it features many different points of view (which is very different from the stories I usually I write. I was ecstatic when Hodder & Stoughton made the offer. How happy were you to have it acquired by publishers Hodder & Stoughton? Once I started writing it, it quickly became something other than a response to District 9 it became its own story with its own soul. He and I were both deeply irritated with the South African science fiction film District 9′s abysmal stereotyping of Nigerians. I started writing it as a screenplay for Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere. ![]() It's about an alien invasion in the city of Lagos and how Lagosians of all walks of life handle it. We caught up with her to discuss the new project: She describes Lagoon, as "a story about humanity at the crossroads between the past, present, and future, Lagoon touches on political and philosophical issues in the rich tradition of the very best science fiction." Okorafor put her anger to a more positive purpose, using it as the inspiration for an ambitious new novel, Lagoon. ![]()
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