Janelle Monáe’s Queer, Afrofuturist Literary Debut
THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN And Other Stories of Dirty Computer By Janelle Monáe Janelle Monáe’s love of science fiction courses through her music like blood. The promotional artwork and music videos for her early albums and EPs pulled heavily from canonical sci-fi films such as “Metropolis,” “Blade Runner” and “I, Robot,” variously styling Monáe as a robot and android.