I am what you all call an ambassador, the first to come and communicate with you people. You people will call me an alien because I am from space, your outer heavens, beyond. Ayodele herself is imperturbable about the intervention of her people: This alien, who takes the shape of a beautiful woman and is given the name Ayodele, calmly informs the humans who've met her that her people “like” the spot they've chosen – it's one of the best-mannered alien invasions in recent sci-fi – and Okorafor sets about immediately exploiting the differences inherent in such a thing happening in Nigeria rather than the customary Western depots. A disparate trio of humans – a marine biologist named Adaora, a musician named Anthony, and a conflicted soldier named Agu - in Lagos encounter a magisterial, shape-shifting alien whose vessel has come down in the nearby ocean. Underneath the unusual setting in Nnedi Okorafor's new novel Lagoon – that is, Nigeria – there's a startlingly standard first-contact sci-fi novel.
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