Science fiction appealed to her at a young age. Little about her real life was cohesive, but imagined worlds could be complete, self-contained, and bound by logic. I saw 'Star Wars' when it came out, because I was a creepy, obsessed space child," she told me. Later she mined her local library for science-fiction novels; she covered the books in paper so that she could read them in class.
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Young Jemisin wants to be a comic book artist and has to hide behind the school to exchange comic books with her white friends. She seems to have felt a bit embarrassed about her reading preferences, but the comics and sci-fi had a powerful draw. At the time Star Wars came out, libraries didn't have comic books, but they do now. Instead of hiding behind the school, kids can get comics from the shelves and go to comic conventions to geek out together.
The library's sci-fi book collection inspired this author to write books that earned three Hugo Awards -- not a bad investment in the future.
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