Janelle Monáe

In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist 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.

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Alice Hyman

I had no idea that this anthology relates to music created by the author until I was about half way through so I definitely recommend listening as you go as it really enhances the experience. These were some poignant and intense stories in places. They follow different citizens in a sort of futuristic-esque world, where new dawn can change how you think and even feel. There are good citizens and there are bad ones. Freedom is something that is questioned and challenged in each. Where and what is freedom in our minds. It explores Queer-ness, Gender fluidity , race and how humans love. 
The first story completely throws you in at the deep end. You almost get to know the characters before you know the world - which swaps as you go because the world stays the same just our perspective in it changes.
A wonderful mind spiralling collection of sci-fi tales that almost read like fairy tales.

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

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