Death of the Author

Zelu, a paraplegic Nigerian American writer, has just lost her teaching job and her novel is going nowhere, until she starts a book about robots in a post-human Nigeria. Rusted Robots becomes a bestseller and makes her famous, while the novel alternates with the story of Ankara, a humanoid robot who gathers knowledge and is drawn into a conflict between AIs. A metafiction about authorship, disability and artificial intelligence.