According to my mother, all things are fixed. To her there was a reason for everything from the massacres in the West to the love she found in the East. But the mind behind all things, I call it Fate, is harsh and cold. It's so logical that no one could call him or herself a better person if he or she bowed down to it. Fate is fixed like brittle crystal in the dark. Nnedi Okorafor's novel Who Fears Death is almost impossible to categorize. On the one hand, it could easily fall under the genre of speculative fiction, but it also contains elements from a variety of other genres: fantasy, science fiction, alternative history, post-apocalyptic dystopia... It is realistic, but also contains magical and supernatural elements. The characters are all young people on the verge of adulthood, which would also imply that the novel is for young readers, but there is so much violence and sex in the novel that it's probably not for a very young audience... The novel is set in Afri...