Binti – Nnedi Okorafor

Binti has been accepted to Oozma University, which will require her to leave Earth and her people –a people that do not normally travel out of their land. On the way, her ship is attacked by the Meduse, and Binti is the only one left alive.

This is a novella (one of the bad things about buying Kindle books is how easy it is to not know that, and be completely surprised by how fast the book goes by.) It’s a little light on the world building (not unexpected, due to the size), but what I love is that this is written by someone of African heritage, and how Binti is written is different than I would expect because if it. Because this is a novella, if you’ve been trying to read scifi that’s not written by white men, this is a great first step, and well worth the read.