“The Wretched and the Beautiful”
| Title | “The Wretched and the Beautiful” |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Yu, E. Lily |
| Secondary Title | Terraform |
| Date Published | February 6, 2017 |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-64566-048-4 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114. |
| URL | https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful. |
| Info Notes | For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu, and for related story about African Americans, see 1992 Bell. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee. |
| Illustration | Illus. Jason Arias |
| Holding Institutions | InU, PSt |
| Author Note | Female author |
| Full Text | 2017 Yu, E. Lily. “The Wretched and the Beautiful.” Illus. Jason Arias. Terraform (February 6, 2017). https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ezaava/the-wretched-and-the-beautiful. Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114. InU, PSt Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee. Female author. |
