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Film, Video Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab

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Title

  • Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab

Summary

  • When the world has no place for you, what do you do? Fight, surrender or begin anew? Nnedi Okorafor’s experimental book-within-a-book, “Death of the Author,” creates a new reality for Zelu, a disabled Nigerian woman, to become her truest self. V.E. Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” interweaves the stories of women throughout time, with a vampiric twist.

Event Date

  • Saturday, September 6, 2025

Running Time

  • 58 minutes, 5 seconds

Online Format

  • image
  • online text
  • video

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Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab. 2025. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11042/.

APA citation style:

(2025) Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11042/.

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Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab. 2025. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/video-11042/>.