@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 {11334, title = {"The Mirages"}, howpublished = {Reconstruction. Stories}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {217-35}, publisher = {Small Beer Press}, address = {Easthampton, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in Mexico in a climate change future where the cities have gone underground but still reflect the economic divisions of the country and people are still trying to move North, although now to Nunavut in northern Canada. The African American female author was born, raised, and educated in the United States through her BA in East Asian languages cultures at Columbia University. She now lives in Mexico where she received a\ master\’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de M{\'e}xico.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Mexican author}, isbn = {9781618731777}, author = {Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10523, title = {The Summer Prince}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Arthur A. Levine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The young adult novel is set in a post-nuclear war future in an arcology in Brazil that is ruled by women who, over the centuries, have become a rather hidebound ruling class. The arcology has the poor at the bottom and the rulers at the top.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982)} }