Nisi Shawl

About The Author

Nisi Shawl is an African American writer and editor best known for the first multiple award-winning New Suns anthology and for their 2016 Nebula finalist novel Everfair. In 2019 they received the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished service to the genre. Prior to putting together New Suns, they edited and co-edited WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity; Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia Butler Scholars; Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler; and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Shawl lives in Seattle, where they take frequent walks with their cat.

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Books by Nisi Shawl

New Suns 2

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

By Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh

Afterword by Grace Dillon / Edited by Nisi Shawl / Foreword by Walter Mosley

The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by people of colour

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakt...

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New Suns

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

By Rebecca Roanhorse, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Darcie Little Badger, Tobias S Buckell, Minsoo Kang, Jaymee Goh, Indrapramit Das, E. Lily Yu, Karin Lowachee, Kathleen Alcalá, Steven Barnes, Chinelo Onwual, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yáñez, Anil Menon, Andrea Hairston and Hiromi Goto

Edited by Nisi Shawl / Foreword by LeVar Burton

Winner of the 2020 Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words Awards.

“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 showcases emerg...

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