Binti: Home doesn’t pick up exactly where its Hugo-winning predecessor left off. In that novella, Binti—a brilliant Himba woman in what is possibly a future Namibia—jets off for the galaxy’s finest university. The trip goes horrifically wrong, but by the end, she’s there, has a new friend, and is ready to start learning. So you might expect the sequel, released yesterday, to cover Binti’s first year at school.