“Beyond time and memory---where the computer cannot reach---is dreaming.”
-The Memory Librarian, by Janelle Monáe.
A quick review of Janelle Monáe’s debut story omnibus! This electric and electronic collection is a collaboration between our beloved actor-singer-android-writer themselves, as well as various collaborators. To give them credit before this review (and also because wow, there’s a lot of big names here)
- Yohanca Delgado (who’s part of Stanford’s. Wallace Stegner Fellowship)
- Eve L. Ewing (known for her work with Ironheart, Photon, Black Panther,
- Alaya Dawn Johnson (multi-award winning author: Adding all of the awards she won would take all day. Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, National Book Award...)
- Danny Lore (They did work for the 2020 Star Wars series from IDW Publishing)
- Sheree Renée Thomas (Associate Editor at Obsidian, 2022 Hugo Award finalist)
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