Бинти тайно покидает родной дом и родную планету, чтобы стать студенткой лучшего университета в Галактике. Но в мире идет давняя и кошмарная война с медузами, инопланетной расой. Бинти становится свидетелем страшной битвы; по необъяснимым причинам она единственная выжила на корабле, и вождь медуз вступает с ней в переговоры. Ннеди Окорафор получила за эту книгу премию «Хьюго» и премию «Небьюла».
I was sixteen years old and had never been beyond my city, let alone near a launch station. I was by myself and I had just left my family. My prospects of marriage had been 100 percent and now they would be zero. No man wanted a woman who’d run away.
There were people behind me and I was aware of their whispers, soft laughter and a young child murmuring. It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure. My temples ached and my feet tingled.
Those women talked about me, the men probably did too. But none of them knew what I had, where I was going, who I was. Let them gossip and judge.