Praise for Like Thunder "An epic collision of new tech and elemental magic-- suspensful, immersive, and chillingly relevant . Another stunning feat of imagination from Nnedi Okorafor ." --Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House "Okorafor pulls no punches.An emotional near-future novel that will keep readers turning pages even as their mountain of questions grows larger ." -- Kirkus "The impressive finale to Nebula Award winner Okorafor's Desert Magician's Duology. Dikéogu's perspective lends greater depth to Okorafor's apocalyptic Saharan world." -- Publishers Weekly " Like Thunder is an excellent demonstration of [Okorafor's] gifts as a novelist : it is inventive, fast-paced, and deeply concerned with difficult journeys to self-discovery, as well as the transformative costs of such adventures." -- Los Angeles Review of Books Praise for Shadow Speaker, Book 1 of the Desert Magician's Duology " A mind-blowing expedition into a not too distant future world .

" -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " Shadow Speaker is wonderful, highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life and death . Nnedi also deals head-on with the fact that power and pain are closely linked, as are magic and blood. I think this book is marvelous ." --Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl's Moving Castl e and the Chronicles of Chrestomanci " There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics ." --Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness " Shadow Speaker is endlessly imaginative, full of mystery and delight on every page . Nnedi Okorafor is a voice that will delight readers of all ages and backgrounds." --Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of Joplin's Ghost.