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The Memory Librarian
- And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
In The Memory Librarian, music, fashion, film and activist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, love—become tangled in a totalitarian landscape...and to discover costs of unravelling them.
Whoever controls our memories controls the future.
Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written 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 human, AI 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 Monáe a worldwide icon in the first place—The Memory Librarian serves listeners 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.
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- Jamal
- 24-01-23
A great Afrofuturist anthology
Janelle and their collaborators really made the world come to life like you're a tourist in this fascinating world.
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- Matyk
- 02-09-22
Be ready to have your mind blown!
The dystopian world of those stories has been build with so much imagination and care, while the stories themselves have been expertly crafted. So fascinating, then both heartbreaking and uplifting, I found here what I even didn't realise I was looking for.
But also, the narration was so good, that I can't believe that I already finished the book, and there are no more stories waiting - I am NOT ready!
P.S. This is currently my favourite book, and I forsee some of my friends and family receiving it as a present :)
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