TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Ship" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ED - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

JF - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250833006 978-1636141053 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mami Wataworks" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Russell Nichols ED - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki ED - Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond] KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance. The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance.

JF - Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250833006 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer Y1 - 2022 A1 - Janelle [Robinson] Monáe (b. 1985) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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 Monáe’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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Year Long Song” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them. 

JF - Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009786 N1 -

Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896

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