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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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121100 |
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digital rda |
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audio file rda |
| Summary |
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Mon?e once again brings her voice to the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, helping narrate these new stories which explore 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 Mon?e and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Mon?e 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 human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was 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 existence...and what it takes to get out of it. Building off the traditions of speculative writers such as Octavia Butler, Ted Chiang, Becky Chambers, and Nnedi Okorafor?and filled with the artistic genius and powerful themes that have made Mon?e a worldwide icon in the first place?The Memory Librarian serves readers tales grounded in the human trials of identity expression, technology, and love, but also reaching through to the worlds of memory and time within, and the stakes and power that exists there. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Janelle Monáe and Bahni Turpin. |
| Note |
"Blackstone Publishing." |
| Contents |
The memory librarian / by Janelle Monáe & Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Nevermind / by Janelle Monáe & Danny Lore -- Timebox / by Janelle Monáe & Eve L. Ewing -- Save changes / by Janelle Monáe & Yohanca Delgado -- Timebox altar(ed) / by Janelle Monáe & Sheree Renee Thomas. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Totalitarianism -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Short stories.
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Alaya Dawn, 1982- author.
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Lore, Danny, author.
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Ewing, Eve L., author.
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Delgado, Yohanca, author.
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Thomas, Sheree R., author.
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Turpin, Bahni, narrator.
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Monáe, Janelle.
Nevermind.
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Monáe, Janelle.
Timebox.
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Monáe, Janelle.
Save changes.
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Monáe, Janelle.
Timebox altar(ed)
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Monáe, Janelle. Memory librarian [New York] : HarperAudio, [2022] 9798200856978 (NjBwBT)bl2022010473 |
| ISBN |
9780063070905 |
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0063070901 |
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