As a lot narrative element as every of Janelle Monáe’s multigenre idea albums are filled with, they’ve all ended having raised extra even questions on the bigger story being informed about time-travelling freedom fighters. There’s nonetheless a lot that hasn’t been explored about how Cindi Mayweather and Jane 57821’s lives interconnect past them each being born from Monáe’s creativeness, however that each one could also be about to alter within the wake of the artist’s newest undertaking.
As The Bookseller stories, in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories from the World of Dirty Computer, a brand new science-fiction anthology from HarperVoyager, Monáe together with different writers will pen a set of tales set in Dirty Computer’s dystopian future the place individuals’s ideas and self-expression are strictly policed. According to the writer, the e-book picks up after Jane 57821 turns into away of the thoughts management getting used to stifle the world’s natural, android, and AI life, and heart concepts about “queerness, race, gender plurality, and love” as automobiles for liberation.
“As a reader and writer of science fiction since childhood, it is a dream to have the opportunity to expand Dirty Computer into a literary project,” Monáe stated of the undertaking in a public assertion. “Writers, specifically Black, queer and genderqueer, are at the forefront of pushing the creative boundaries of sci-fi and speculative storytelling. I’m honored to be collaborating with a new generation of creators as we expand this tale, that began with an album and emotion picture, into a larger world of new and familiar characters.”
Though Dirty Computer’s characters like Jane 57821 and Mary Apple 53 had been teased as having some form of direct connection to figures on Monáe’s earlier albums, the shortage of specifics as to how this universe’s time journey works has left it unclear how their tales all interconnect. The Memory Librarian’s enlargement on Dirty Computer’s world is probably going going to attach no less than few of the dots whereas including new significance to the albums which have already been launched, however the greatest and most blatant query looming over this undertaking, after all, is whether or not it’s the precursor to new music.
The Memory Librarian and Other Stories from the World of Dirty Computer hits shops on April 19, 2022.
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