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The Memory Librarian : And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae ✓ In Stock

In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and activist icon Janelle Monae 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 Monae and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monae 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 Monae 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. ISBN 9780008512446

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Is It Tomorrow Yet? : Paradoxes of the Pandemic by Ivan Krastev ✓ In Stock

One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it. 'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable...' Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing speeches and the conflicting advice, the Coronavirus pandemic acted, changing our world in the most profound ways. The tragic human cost and the economic devastation will be assessed and calculated for decades to come. But the pandemic also changed things in ways that are less easily expressed and understood. It has made bare the frayed contradictions of modern life. It has distorted things that seemed simple and settled. It has affirmed plain, uncomfortable truths. In this brilliant, thought-provoking essay, Ivan Krastev, one of our most interesting thinkers today, explores the pandemic's immediate consequences and conceives of its long-term legacy. Will things be different for the communities most harmed, and for those who escaped the worst? Where are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how do we think our way through the unthinkable? ISBN 9780141995175

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Is It Tomorrow Yet? : Paradoxes of the Pandemic by Ivan Krastev

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Hazelthorn by CG Drews (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Hazelthorn by CG Drews (Paperback)

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The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry ✓ In Stock
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The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

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Afterwards by Charlotte Leonard ✓ In Stock
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Afterwards by Charlotte Leonard

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Let's Pretend by Laura Vaughan ✓ In Stock
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Let's Pretend by Laura Vaughan

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Helm by Sarah Hall (Paperback) ✓ In Stock
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Helm by Sarah Hall (Paperback)

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