LaGuardia #1
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- 4,49 €
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- 4,49 €
Publisher Description
Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka who has just returned to NYC under mysterious conditions. After smuggling an illegal alien plant named ''Letme Live'' through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport's customs and security, she arrives at her grandmothers tenement, the New Hope Apartments in the South Bronx.
There, she and Letme become part of a growing population of mostly African and shape-shifting alien immigrants, battling against interrogation, discrimination and travel bans, as they try to make it in a new land. But, as the birth of her child nears, future begins to change. What dark secret is she hiding?
Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata series) and illustrated by Tana Ford (Silk, Duck!), the team behind Black Panther: Long Live the King #6.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Trump administration's travel ban gets incisive sci-fi treatment in Hugo and Nebula award winning author Okorafor's tale of extraterrestrial immigrants. In a near-future New York, a Nigerian-American doctor named Future has a baby on the way whose parentage is "complicated." She flees strife in Lagos and lands at LaGuardia smuggling an "illegal" refugee in her bag a sentient universe-traveling plant whose species was wiped out by genocide. It names itself Letme Live and takes root in the yard of Future's grandmother's building. Later, Future returns to the airport to join massive protests, which include sides both for and against strict new immigration laws that ban aliens and human citizens of certain countries (who are suspected of having alien blood) from traveling to America. The political-is-personal narrative, wittily illustrated by Ford with vivid colors by Devlin, mixes playful contemporary references with the Afrofuturistic inspiration of Octavia Butler. "Aliens are people too," reads a banner clutched by a four-armed blobby creature; another proclaims "Octavia warned us." The aliens arrive in all shapes and sizes, and bring new biotechnologies, but struggle to coexist in peace. Like the best sci-fi, the storytelling speaks to the heart of current debates, as Future and her growing family fight to create a world or even just find an apartment where they can all survive (July)
