@booklet {11018, title = {Emergency Skin}, volume = {No 3 in the Forward Collection}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor\’s note on 343;\ and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Amazon Original Stories}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)}, editor = {Blake Crouch (b. 1978)} } @booklet {10165, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Elevator Dancer{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {How Long {\textquoteleft}Til Black Future Month}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {34-37}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Surveillance dystopia.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {11887, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Ones Who Stay and Fight{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {How Long {\textquoteleft}Til Black Future Month}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

}, month = {2018}, pages = {1-13}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The author calls the story \“a pastiche and response\” to Le Guin\’s \“The Ones Who Walk from Amelas\” (1973) (xi), with some references to Le Guin\’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and the story reflects its title.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10163, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Valedictorian"}, howpublished = {Lightspeed Magazine}, volume = {no. 55}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 150-69.\ 

}, month = {December 2014}, abstract = {

The story takes place after a very long war in which humans have been defeated by other humans with embedded AI. The humans without AI have degenerated, despise intelligence, and see the only role from girls is to have babies. The story focuses on a girl who doesn\’t fit in.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/valedictorian/}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10154, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cloud Dragon Skies{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Strange Horizons}, year = {2005}, note = {

Rpt. in her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 113-26

}, month = {April 1, 2005}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which Earth\’s environment is badly damaged and then destroyed through an experiment by those who had left Earth for life in space.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/cloud-dragon-skies/}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} }