Remote Control

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor

"She's the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own."

The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa----a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.

Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks--alone, except for her fox companion--searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers.

But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award (audiobook version).

Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781250772800


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2020 pg. 45
Publishers Weekly 10/26/2020
Library Journal 11/01/2020 pg. 72
Booklist 11/01/2020 pg. 34
Shelf Awareness 01/22/2021
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2021

About the Author
Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. Her children's book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. She is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University at Buffalo.