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The story focuses on koriba, a mundumugu sort of like a witch doctor and a wise man rolled into one of the kikuyu tribe. Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for hi. Kirinyaga by mike resnick overdrive rakuten overdrive. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. The story was the winner of the 1989 hugo award for best short story and the 1989 sf chronicle award. Some call it a collection of stories, because resnick wrote the chapters as short stories, sold them, won awards on them, and then assembled the book, but since together they create a coherent whole, i disagree with that assessment. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading kirinyaga.
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