Cover of Binti: The Night Masquerade

Binti: The Night Masquerade

core novel 2018 Binti

Record

First published2018
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating3.99 (23,755 ratings, collected 2026-08-18)
Page count208
First-edition ISBN9780765393135

Synopsis

Binti returns home to Earth once again, working to further develop her abilities as a harmonizer while facing a critical and rapidly escalating conflict between the Khoush people and the Meduse, the alien species her friend Okwu belongs to. With old tensions from her earlier journeys resurfacing and threatening to erupt into open war between the two peoples, Binti must draw on everything she has learned, about harmonizing, about her own changing nature, and about the fragile trust she has built between Khoush and Meduse, to try to prevent the conflict from spiraling out of control. Her efforts to keep the peace are complicated by forces and consequences from her earlier travels that she has not yet fully reckoned with.

Where it sits

  • Universe: Binti
  • Series: The Binti Trilogy core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
  • Author: Nnedi Okorafor

Awards (verified)

  • Hugo Award (Best Novella), 2019: nominated

Notes

  • From the series record (The Binti Trilogy): The three core Binti novellas, all Tor.com originals.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series The Binti Trilogy: position 3 of 3: previous Binti: Home (2017)

Sources

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