"Covenant"

2020 Hopkinson, [Noelle] Nalo (b. 1960). “Covenant.” In Liam Young (b. 1979). Planet City. Ed. Andrew Mackenzie (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Uro Publications, 2020), 169-177. Rpt. In her Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2024), 27-33, with a brief note on the story by the author on 33. PSt 978-1-61696-426-9

Part of elaborate project by Liam Young, an Australian film-director and architect imagining a future city the incorporated the entire world’s population so as to let the rest of the Earth recover from the damage done to it. Hopkinson notes that rather than writing a science fiction story, she wrote a fable about how the city began as told by people far into its future. For the book see 2020 Young. For other stories set in the world of Planet City, see 2020 Hopkinson and 2020 Robinson as well as two stories translated from Chinese in the book, Chen Quifan, “A micro pilgrimage.” Trans. Emily Jin (283-288, 313-318) and Xia. Jia, “From Mars to Earth.” Trans. Andy Dudak (335-336, 361-366). The female author was born in Jamaica and grew up in Guyana and Trinidad, spent many years in Canada, taught at the University of California, Riverside, and in 2021 became a Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.