EAN: 9780063070875

THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN - JANELLE MONÁE GEBUNDEN

New York Times bestseller! In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer 
singer-songwriter  actor  fashion icon  futurist  and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings
to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums 
exploring how different threads of liberation?queerness  race  gender plurality  and
love?become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian
landscape...and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.
Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of
talented collaborators have crafted a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and
powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty
Computer introduced a world in which thoughts?as a means of self-conception?could be controlled
or erased by a select few. And whether you were human  AI  or other  your life and sentience
were dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate. That
was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free. Expanding from that mythos  these
stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian society . . . and what it
takes to get out of it. Building off the tradition of speculative fiction writers such as
Octavia E. Butler  Ted Chiang  Becky Chambers  and Nnedi Okorafor?and filled with powerful
themes and Monáe's emblematic artistic vision?The Memory Librarian serves to readers tales that
dissect the human trials of identity expression  technology  and love  reaching through to the
worlds of memory and time  and the stakes and power that pulse there.

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