Teleporter 1: A Science Fiction Novel, set in Third-World Nigeria (TELEPORTER (Series)) - Softcover
Book 1 of 2: TELEPORTER (Series)
Synopsis
She was labelled the dumbest student in her class. Then she walked through a wall.
Fourteen-year-old Mariam Edeh has always been invisible — last place in every exam, raised by a mother who works late and never asks how she's doing, no father, no answers, no future anyone can imagine for her. In a hot Enugu classroom, she raises her hand for the first time in her life to answer a physics question — and shocks everyone with a perfect definition of teleportation.
She's not guessing. She knows what it is because it keeps happening to her.
One blink and she's home. Another blink and she's in a stranger's house — where she finds a girl her age, tied to a bed, crying in the dark.
What Mariam does next will change everything.
Set against the vivid backdrop of Enugu, Nigeria, Teleporter is a propulsive, emotionally charged YA sci-fi novel that weaves together quantum physics, ancient Igbo mythology, and one girl's discovery that the power the world tried to bury in her is the very thing that will save others.
Mariam's story reaches back centuries — to a seven-year-old Igbo girl named Cheta, selected for human sacrifice by the gods of her village, who chose to run. An old witch named Ezigbo gave her one chance: step into a portal and travel to the future, where the gods have lost their power. She might die in transit. She would lose all her memories.
She said yes.
Mariam is Cheta. Displaced in time, adopted by a woman who found her struggling out of a blue light on Udi hills, carrying powers she cannot explain and a past she cannot remember. Now those powers are getting harder to hide — and the people around her are not all who they seem.
Her best friend Charlie has read every scientific article on teleportation and refuses to leave her side. Her physics teacher, Sir Ebuka — a limping, bespectacled quantum physicist — offers to train her. A boy named Julian, who lives on Charlie's street and can turn invisible, was also found wandering Udi hills as a child with no memories.
And somewhere in the present, men with guns are looking for exactly the kind of girl Mariam is.
Teleporter is the story of a girl becoming a hero — not despite her brokenness, but because of it. It is a story about what it costs to save people, what it means to trust the wrong person, and what happens when love arrives at the worst possible time.
Nigerian sci-fi has arrived. And it brought a girl who can split dimensions with her hands.
Perfect for readers who love:
- YA sci-fi with strong female protagonists
- African fantasy and mythology
- Stories that mix science with spiritual power
- The Flash, The Gifted, or Teen Wolf — set in Nigeria
- Coming-of-age stories with real emotional depth
Content note: Contains depictions of human trafficking and gun violence (non-graphic). Recommended for ages 12 and up.
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