“Diaspora Electronica”
| Title | “Diaspora Electronica” |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Kaye, Blaize [M.] |
| Secondary Authors | Moffett, Helen, Chela, Efemia, and Kona, Bongani |
| Secondary Title | Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa |
| Pagination | 55-65 |
| Date Published | 2017 |
| Publisher | New Internationalist Publications |
| Place Published | Oxford, Eng. |
| ISBN Number | 9781780264059 |
| Keywords | Male author, South African author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down. |
| Author Note | South African author |
| Full Text | 2017 Kaye, Blaize [M.]. “Diaspora Electronica.” Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Helen Moffett, Efemia Chela, and Bongani Kona (Oxford, Eng.: New Internationalist Publications, 2017), 55-65. The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down. South African author. |
