Series
Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor · 4 novels · 1 novella · 2010–2026
Nnedi Okorafor's award-winning novel is a work of science fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic Africa, engaging directly with themes of race and ethnicity through a speculative lens; it won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. The Book of Phoenix, published five years later, serves as a prequel exploring the earlier origins of that same world.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Who Fears Death at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s3
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:fantasywitchessecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Book of Phoenixdarkest · calmest
- One Way Witchbrightest · most intense