Nisi Shawl
1) Everfair
Author
Series
Everfair volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
Fabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native...
2) Kinning
Author
Series
Everfair volume 2
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair’s Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe’s influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
3) Speculation
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and 60s experiences with the Beat Generation--and her adventures in the mysterious, otherworldly realm "over the fence." Characters based on star Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac fight alongside Mardou or battle against her as she challenges racism and sexism to win happiness, freedom, and respect for her work. Are the answers shes seeking shrouded...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. In Nalo Hopkinson's first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form;...