Ever since H.G. Wells’ The War of The Worlds hit the airwaves, humanity has become terrified alien invaders, unaware of the fact that aliens might just be terrified of us. To the objective and extraterrestrial observer, human beings are horrifying. For all our guises of civility – our business suits and cappuccinos and adult coloring books, we’re nothing more than a bunch of angry primates with the power to smash atoms and the gall to use it. The fountain pen that recorded human history was dipped in blood, and woe to any species that comes across us when we finally take to the stars. If extraterrestrials are expecting to meet the better angels of our nature upon first contact, they should give these 10 sci-fi books where humans are the bad guys a gander – so they know what they’re really in for.
Binti
(Tordotcom)Binti is an afrofuturist novel by Nnedi Okorafor, and is about a young women who is the first in her community to be accepted into a prestigious college… on the other side of the galaxy. After Binti runs away from home in order to catch a transport ship to Oomza University, her troubles go from difficult to abysmal after the ship is invaded by a group of jellyfish-like aliens called the Meduse. While the Meduse appear to be Lovecraftian horrors from humanity’s darkest nightmares, Binti slowly learns that the jellies’ relationship to mankind is far more nuanced than it appears. After connecting with a Meduse, Binti learns that humanity stole a sacred artifact from their kind, and the Meduse are only seeking to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. It’s a parable about the sort of colonialism that filled the British Museum with artifacts poached from indigenous peoples of the world, and one woman’s attempt to right the wrongs of her own kind.
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