![]() ![]() She also deals with PTSD and trauma in the bonus new short story, "Binti: Sacred Fire". Filled with flawed but compelling characters, Binti stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page.īinti deals with issues like being looked down on due to culture, and the difficulty in maintaining a strong sense of self and connecting with people who are different than you. What began as three novellas has been compiled into one complete omnibus, with stunning results. Now, five days from landing, Binti has to figure out how to save the planet the ship is hurtling towards. ![]() They slaughter everyone on the ship, leaving her the sole survivor. Surrounded by strangers who don’t observe her customs, she begins her interstellar journey only to be attacked by the alien Medusae. In the first novella, Binti, the titular character travels to Oomza University. Despite her family’s concerns, her abilities make her a prime candidate. ![]() the reader observes, recollects, or participates in a range of personal experience including violent pain and disfigurement, sensory deprivation and. A young Himba girl, Binti is the first of her people to be offered a place at Oomza University. These are at least some of the ways you can read NOVA: as a fast-action farflung interstellar adventure as archetypal mystical/mythical allegory (in which the Tarot and the Grail both figure prominently) as modern myth told in the S-F idiom. ![]()
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