TY - ABST T1 - “Knitting Day” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jen Winter ED - Rivqa Rafael ED - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a patriarchal dystopia in which women, and poor women in particular, are disparaged and end up working in the local factory building robots. The protagonist is one such woman, who had excelled in school but was expelled because, it was assumed, she cheated. In the factory some women form a support community that brings about some changes.

JF - Mother of Invention PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sexy Robot Heroes Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) ED - Rivqa Rafael ED - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Guangzhou (Canton), China in a future in which there has been extensive flooding of the city due to climate change. There is extreme poverty, and gangs rule the areas of the city where the story is set, but the story is concerned with the struggles of a transgender individual to survive in this setting. 

JF - Mother of Invention PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Did We Break the End of the World?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tansy Rayner Roberts (b. 1978) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia inhabited only by teenagers in which an electrical pulse has destroyed all equipment that runs on electricity, including the “foster mothers,” the robots that have cared for the teenagers. The protagonist is deaf and gay.

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Austalia] U5 -

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