Nisi Shawl

Everfair

1 - Everfair (Sep-2016)
2 - Kinning (Jan-2024)

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  To the Moment
  

  • 2007
  • / Fantasy
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  The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there''s even a...

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  Filter House
  

  • Aug-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  Co-winner of the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award; finalist for the 2009 World Fantasy Award

  The collection’s fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader’s subconscious.

  “From the exotic, ...

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  Writing the Other
  

  • Jan-2014
  • / Science Fiction
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  During the 1992 Clarion West Writers Workshop attended by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, one of the students expressed the opinion that it is a mistake to write about people of ethnic backgrounds different from your own because you might get it wrong&#...

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  Writing and Racial Identity
  

  • Sep-2014
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  Some time in January of 2011 I wrote to a friend: 'I feel like I am floating in an alternate universe of silver goggles and artificial wombs and look there's Emily Dickinson smoking a cigar.' I was deep inside the process of editing The WisCon Chroni...

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  Stories for Chip
  

  • Jul-2015
  • / Science Fiction
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  Stories for Chip brings together outstanding authors inspired by a brilliant writer and critic, Science Fiction Writers of America Grandmaster Samuel R. “Chip” Delany. Award-winning SF luminaries such as Michael Swanwick, Nalo Hopkinson, and Eile...

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  Everfair
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Steampunk
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  Everfair - 1
  

  Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Soci...

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  Broad Knowledge
  

  • Nov-2018
  • / Horror
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  Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good is a feminist anthology of dark fiction and darker knowledge, edited by Joanne Merriam. Containing 35 stories of “bad” women, and “good” women who just haven’t been caught yet, it features 35 fearless...

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  New Suns
  

  • Mar-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcase...

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  Talk Like a Man
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  Nisi Shawl’s steampunk-flavored alternate history of the “Belgian” Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already established them as a cuttin...

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  Our Fruiting Bodies
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Our Fruiting Bodies collects stories of old growth and fresh decay, of stubborn rebirth and the faint but nonimaginary paths connecting life and nonlife. From the sharp, sweet confessional of their Peter Pan-inspired “Awfully Big Adventure,R...

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  Speculation
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses ... and a really marvelous pair of spectacles.After Winna's little sister breaks her glasses, her grandfather gives her an old-timey pair of spectacles that be...

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  Sun River
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / Fantasy
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  A new story set in the world of Nisi Shawl's acclaimed Everfair and its upcoming sequel, Kinning, available everywhere on January 23, 2024.Princess Mwadi of Everfair teams up with American actress Rima Bailey on a reconnaissance mission in Egypt in a...

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  Kinning
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / Fantasy
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  Everfair - 2
  

  Kinning, the sequel to Nisi Shawl’s acclaimed debut novel Everfair, continues the stunning alternate history where barkcloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperiali...

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