![]() We were the best and we pushed each other to get closer to “God. None of us would have made it into the university if we couldn’t tree, but it’s not easy. When you do math fractals long enough, you kick yourself into treeing just enough to get lost in the shallows of the mathematical sea. First published in 2015, Binti has won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the 2016 Hugo Award, the 2015 Nebula Award, and the 2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Yet they were girls who knew what I meant when I spoke of “treeing.” We sat in my room (because, having so few travel items, mine was the emptiest) and challenged each other to look out at the stars and imagine the most complex equation and then split it in half and then in half again and again. Binti: The Complete Trilogy is a series of science fiction novellas written by Nnedi Okorafor, author of the Akata Witch series. They were girls who could not stand the rays of Earth’s sun unless it was shining through a tinted window. They were all girls who grew up in sprawling houses, who’d never walked through the desert, who’d never stepped on a snake in the dry grass. ![]() Everyone else I met in the dining area or the learning room where various lectures were held by professors onboard the ship. ![]()
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