@booklet {11809, title = {"Ghost Ship"}, howpublished = {Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction}, year = {2022}, note = {

Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.

}, month = {2022}, pages = {275-294}, publisher = {Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781250833006 978-1636141053}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972) and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond]} } @booklet {11794, title = {"Mami Wataworks"}, howpublished = {Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {61-75}, publisher = {Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance. The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9781250833006}, author = {Russell Nichols}, editor = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972) and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond]} } @booklet {11574, title = {The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {313 pp.}, publisher = {Harper Voyager}, address = {New york}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to \“cleaning\” or having their memories removed. They originated with Mon{\'a}e\’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE\&ab_channel=JanelleMon\%C3\%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-06307-087-5 }, author = {Janelle [Robinson] Mon{\'a}e (b. 1985)} } @booklet {10978, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Thirteen Year Long Song{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896

}, month = {2019}, pages = {182-97}, publisher = {Apex Publications}, address = {Lexington, KY}, abstract = {

The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781937009786}, author = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972)}, editor = {Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner} }