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Nubia The Reckoning

Omar Epps

The sequel to Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho were among the first of a new generation of Nubians to awaken to extraordinary powers—gifts their parents lost when they fled their island home decades ago. And now that Uzochi has been declared a Nubian catalyst, everyone expects him to lead.

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The Breakfast Club

Epps discussed his new book, a science fiction novel about a group of young people discovering they have superpowers, emphasizing themes of unity, self-discovery, and the importance of supporting each other. He also expressed his hope for the book to become a film or TV series.

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I don't know when the series is gonna end, but endings are very important because I think a lot of times in this art, we talk about the problems, but we never talk about the solutions and there never...

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Epps discussed his new book, a science fiction novel about a group of young people discovering they have superpowers, emphasizing themes of unity, self-discovery, and the importance of supporting each other. He also expressed his hope for the book to become a film or TV series.

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I don't know when the series is gonna end, but endings are very important because I think a lot of times in this art, we talk about the problems, but we never talk about the solutions and there never seems to be a happy ending, whether it's Men In Society, Boys In The Hood, whatever it was, Juice, there's really no happy ending.

I'm not waiting on Hollywood. Okay, if I was waiting on Hollywood, the book would have never been written.

I mean, there's a lot of things that they take. I think one of the main themes for me is the idea of unity.

And the other thing I really want the young reader to take away is all the answers are already inside of you.

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It is the sequel to Nubia: The Awakening, a dystopian futuristic sci-fi that follows three teenagers who develop powers connected to their heritage. The author discussed the book's themes of classism, racism, and sexism, and how these issues transcend time.

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Nubia of the reckoning so basically Nubia of the Nubia series is about um you know it's a dystopian um futuristic sci-fi that follows these three teenagers these three Nubian teenagers in what's a new New York is 100 years from now and basically their powers start to sprout and it's connected to their heritage but they don't know that because they weren't told by their parents so they you know adolescence is awkward it was awkward age for all of us you're trying to figure stuff out and then you you throw that on their table and um and in the reckoning they realize what their abilities are and then it's a discussion of what are they going to do with them you know are they going to use them for good or bad

in the reckoning they realize what their abilities are and then it's a discussion of what are they going to do with them you know are they going to use them for good or bad

the Nubians are displaced people their island nation was destroyed or so they think stay tuned um and so they're in a new what i'm calling a new new york and they are sort of the have-nots and so the people who were here and the color has nothing to do with it they're just sort of native new yorkers i guess you know they they feel a way about well who are these new people and then as the power start to sprout they're like who are these new kids and why do they have a seat at our table you know just yeah how society seems to be which is it's always been perplexing to me because i look at life like this if a rock big enough hits this planet it ain't gonna matter if you got a million dollars or a dollar everybody gonna be in the same boat

the idea of being prideful about who i am and what i come from meant something to me at a really young age and that's why throughout hopefully not just my life but in my career being in a career field that deals with fame and people see you i was very acutely aware of how the images that i portray on screen can be ingested

the answers are already inside right they already are permeating through you physiologically and spiritually part of the conundrum of life is to then you sort of unlearn what is innately in you product of environment schooling all of these things and then you spend your latter life unlearning that right to get back to the source

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