Emergency Skin
| Title | Emergency Skin |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Jemisin, N[ora] K.(b. 1972) |
| Secondary Authors | Crouch, Blake(b. 1978) |
| Tertiary Authors | Jemisin, N. K. |
| Volume / Edition | No 3 in the Forward Collection |
| Pagination | EBook |
| Date Published | 2019 |
| Publisher | Amazon Original Stories |
| Place Published | Seattle, WA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2 |
| Keywords | African American author, Female author |
| Annotation | In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor’s note on 343; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32. |
| Info Notes | No. 1 in the Forward Collection edited by Blake Crouch. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | African American female author (b. 1972). |
| Full Text | 2019 Jemisin, N[ora] K. (b. 1972). Emergency Skin. Seattle, WA: Amazon Original Stories. No 3 in the Forward Collection edited by Blake Crouch. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor’s note on 343; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32.. PSt In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth. African American female author. |
