Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette

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TitleWould She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette
Year for Search2019
AuthorsHarding-Shaw, Melanie
Pagination73 pp.
Date Published2019
PublisherAuthor
Place Published[Wellington, New Zealand]
ISBN Number978-0-473-50176-1 978-0-473-57089-7 978-0-473-50178-5 978-0-473-51741-0
KeywordsAotearoa New Zealand author, Female author
Annotation

The first volume of three set in a city where the “Librarian algorithm” imposes “tailored speech”. The volume concerns an undercover detective infiltrating the world of spoken poetry. The second volume is Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2019. 76 pp. in which an aide to the Secretary of Literary Safety is trying to defuse the growing opposition movement. The third volume is Hell Is Empty: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2020. 79 pp. in which a journalist works to uncover and, if possible, publicize the corruption that pervades the system.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 39-110.

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Author Note

Aotearoa/New Zealand female author
Full Text

2019 Harding-Shaw, Melanie. Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author. 73 pp. Rpt. in her Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 39-110. PSt  

The first volume of three set in a city where the “Librarian algorithm” imposes “tailored speech”. The volume concerns an undercover detective infiltrating the world of spoken poetry. The second volume is Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2019. 76 pp. in which an aide to the Secretary of Literary Safety is trying to defuse the growing opposition movement. The third volume is Hell Is Empty: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2020. 79 pp. in which a journalist works to uncover and, if possible, publicize the corruption that pervades the system. Aotearoa/New Zealand female author.