Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner
A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it - in
an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating
cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos,
former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space
program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe,
Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and thousands of dead satellites
about to plummet to Earth, the planet's only hope rests with the
Nigerian Space Program's plan to launch a daring rescue mission to the
International Space Station. Bracket and his team are already up against
a serious deadline, but life on the ground is just as disastrous after
the flare. Nigeria has been flooded with advanced biohacking
technologies, and the scramble for space supremacy has attracted
dangerous peoples from all over Africa. What's more: the militant
Islamic group Boko Haram is slowly encroaching on the spaceport, leaving
a trail of destruction, while a group of nomads has discovered an
ancient technology more powerful than anything Bracket's ever imagined.
With the clock ticking down, Bracket - helped by a brilliant scientist
from India and an eccentric lunar geologist - must confront the looming
threats to the spaceport in order to launch a harrowing rescue mission
into space. In this sequel to Nigerians in Space, Deji Bryce Olukotun
poses deep questions about technology, international ambition, identity,
and space exploration in the 21st century.
