"Hard Mary"
| Title | "Hard Mary" |
| Year for Search | 2018 |
| Authors | Samatar, Sofia(b. 1971) |
| Secondary Title | Lightspeed |
| Volume / Edition | No. 100 |
| Pagination | 65-94 |
| Date Published | September 2018 |
| ISBN Number | 9781597809887 |
| Keywords | Female author, Somali-American author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329. |
| Info Notes | There is a brief interview with the author on 285-86. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The Somali-American female author teaches English at James Madison University |
| Full Text | 2018 Samatar, Sofia (b. 1971). “Hard Mary.” Lightspeed, no. 100 (September 2018): 65-94. There is a brief interview with the author on 285-86. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329. PSt The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy. The Somali-American female author teaches English at James Madison University. |
