Shelby, Ashley
Entry updated 26 August 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1977- ) US journalist and author whose first novel, the nonfantastic South Pole Station (2017), is set in contemporary Antarctica. She is of sf interest for Muri (2019 chap), a novella which reconfigures Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" (October-December 1855 Putnam's Monthly Magazine). "Muri" is the leader's name in A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817) by Captain Amasa Delano, the original narrative that Melville used as his own source. In her novella it is not blacks who have taken over a slave ship, but sentient polar bears being relocated to Antarctica, ostensibly in an attempt to save them from the unfolding devastation of Climate Change. Muri has been included in Honeymoons in Temporary Locations (coll 2024), along with other tales illuminatingly connected by their interest in the climate catastrophe. [JC]
Ashley Shelby
born Houston, Texas: 1977
works (selected)
- Muri (New York: Radix Media, 2019) [novella: chap: in the publisher's Futures series: pb/]
- Honeymoons in Temporary Locations (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2024) [coll: hb/]
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