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Bwana [MultiFormat]
eBook by Mike Resnick
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: A Kirinyaga story. Koriba's counsel is rejected by the tribe, and they seek a quick-fix for their problem with jackals. Soon they face a killer even greater than the jackals, one who will tax all of Koriba's powers.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2000
128 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [62 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [49 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [49 KB]
, Portable Document Format (PDF) [225 KB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [51 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [58 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [113 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [168 KB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [79 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [43 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [56 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [78 KB]
Words: 16816
Reading time: 48-67 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
Reviewing science fiction without mention of Mike Resnick is an abomination. 'Bwana' is a magnet that could be curriculum. The spirit of Africa touches my blood, and Mr. Resnick's tale resonates. Sharp and witty, it delightfully encapsulates a Kikuyu Utopia. Not from the eye of a mzungu, a white devil, but from one who has felt her wind, smelled her mud, breathed her people, cracked her reeds underfoot, witnessed the glint of a new spear and listened to the river's heartbeat. Ngai is a god, cunning and great. Mundumugu is a witch doctor who casts bones on dirt to read prophesy. But neither Ngai nor mundumugu wish to act upon present mayhem, as fisi, the man-eating hyenas, maul and chomp Kikuyu boys in the fields. Death chants blacken the village sky. Sons of Kirinyaga, together with Koinnage, their paramount chief, finally reject the witchdoctor's counsel and seek their own solution -- an arrogant hunter from Earth. Anyone who enjoys this story would find irresistible the entire Kirinyaga series, and most of Mike Resnick. -Eugen Bacon, Fictionwise Recommender
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