@booklet {11021, title = {"Ark"}, volume = {No. 1 in the Forward Collection }, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Amazon Original Stories}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

The Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, and the story is set near the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where the few people remaining on Earth are choosing plants to be loaded in Ark Flora for the trip to a new planet. Ark Fauna and most people have already left, and the protagonist is trying to decide whether to leave of stay.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988)}, editor = {Blake Crouch (b. 1978)} } @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)} }