"Mother of Invention"
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2018
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Slate
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| Annotation |
Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel. |
| Published Date |
February 21, 2018 |
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2018 Okorafor, Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] (b. 1974). “Mother of Invention.” Illus. Shyama Golden. Slate (February 21, 2018). https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html. For a response by Stacey Higgenbotham, “The Smart Home Dilemma.” Illus. Shyama Golden. Slate (February 21, 2018). Stacey Higginbotham responds to Nnedi Okorafor’s “Mother of Invention.” (slate.com). Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33. PSt, PU Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel. Okorafor is an African American female author of Igbo heritage. Higgenbotham is a specialist on the internet of things, and she has a podcast, a newsletter, and a news journal on the subject. |
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Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33. |
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For a response by Stacey Higgenbotham, “The Smart Home Dilemma.” Illus. Shyama Golden. Slate (February 21, 2018). Stacey Higginbotham responds to Nnedi Okorafor’s “Mother of Invention.” (slate.com). |
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Illus. Shyama Golden |
| Author Note |
Okorafor is an African American female author (b. 1974) of Igbo heritage. Higgenbotham is a specialist on the internet of things, and she has a podcast, a newsletter, and a news journal on the subject. |
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