War Girls, Tochi Onyebuchi
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival becomes the only way of life.
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Onyebuchi earned acclaim for his 2017 debut fantasy novel, Beasts Made of Night, and its 2018 follow-up, Crown of Thunder. Like that duology, War Girls is set in an alternate version of Nigeria, but this time around, the author shares a more near-future sci-fi tale, following a pair of sisters who are determined to realize their dreams of a better life despite the war-torn destruction that surrounds them.
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ISBN-10: 0451481674
ISBN-13: 9780451481672
Goodreads: 40580686
Author(s): Publisher: Razorbill
Published: 10/15/2019
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky.
In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect them from the harsh, radiation-heavy climate. Across the nation, as the years-long civil war wages on, survival becomes the only way of life.
Two sisters, Onyii and Ify, dream of more. Their lives have been marked by violence and political unrest. Still, they dream of peace, of hope, of a future together.
And they're willing to fight an entire war to get there.