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Lagoon, Nnedi Okorafor

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Lagoon

Nnedi Okorafor

"In Lagos, three total strangers are drawn to Bar Beach. A marine biologist, a rapper famous throughout Africa, and a troubled soldier are brought together when an alien ship lands in the ocean, causing a tidal wave that will transform them - and change the world. But they were not the only witnesses. When word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside the world's fifth most populous city, Lagos begins to erupt. Soon the military, religious leaders, thieves, and crackpots are trying to control the message on YouTube and on the streets. Meanwhile, Earth's superpowers are considering a preemptive nuclear launch to eradicate the intruders. All that stands between seventeen million residents and anarchy and death are an alien ambassador and three altered humans who are now running a gauntlet of horrors within the city in order to save it." -- back cover