@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)} }