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 - “Shopping Day” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A plague dystopia in which everyone has to be locked down at 6:00 PM, and being out during the day is dangerous. The story focuses on children waiting for their mother to return from a shopping trip.

JF - How We Live Now (Serial Box anthology) UR - https://www.realm.fm/serials/shopping-day N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 271-277.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Day Only” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.

JF - Wastelands: The New Apocalypse PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9871785658952 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Reformatory” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Junot Díaz KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of life for African-Americans in the South at an unspecified date. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carriers" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np SN - 9781497484405 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Herd Immunity” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.

JF - The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781497484375 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Removal Order" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781495471179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Protection" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patient Zero” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 99.2 (587) N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.

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