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After the Flare
After the Flare | Deji Bryce Olukotun
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A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it - in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe, Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and thousands of dead satellites about to plummet to Earth, the planet's only hope rests with the Nigerian Space Program's plan to launch a daring rescue mission to the International Space Station. Bracket and his team are already up against a serious deadline, but life on the ground is just as disastrous after the flare. Nigeria has been flooded with advanced biohacking technologies, and the scramble for space supremacy has attracted dangerous peoples from all over Africa. What's more: the militant Islamic group Boko Haram is slowly encroaching on the spaceport, leaving a trail of destruction, while a group of nomads has discovered an ancient technology more powerful than anything Bracket's ever imagined. With the clock ticking down, Bracket - helped by a brilliant scientist from India and an eccentric lunar geologist - must confront the looming threats to the spaceport in order to launch a harrowing rescue mission into space. In this sequel to Nigerians in Space, Deji Bryce Olukotun poses deep questions about technology, international ambition, identity, and space exploration in the 21st century.
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After the Flare | Deji Bryce Olukotun
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Mostly pretty good story of former NASA employee in Nigeria helping to save an astronaut abandoned in Space after solar flare wipes out electronics on most of earth especially the USA. Involves African myths and rebel fighters.

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After the Flare | Deji Bryce Olukotun

I'm going to try this one next. It is at my Library. A solar flare wipes out all electricity on earth and it's up to Nigerians to rescue an astronaut (from reading the cover and looking at Amazon). I'm kind of into dystopias for some reason.

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Liked this much better than Nigerians in Space. Can see why this one was nominated for awards.