JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD VENTURE OUT OF YOUR HIDING PLACES, HERE COMES ANOTHER HORDE OF HORRORS Slithering, wriggling, lurking, and creeping. Leaving slick trails of pustulent slime behind them. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill monsters populating the pages of this tome. No, these critters feed on the fear that bubbles up inside you when all appears lost and the scent of blood is on the wind. Now is the time to face these demons and read on. NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER, VOL. 2: A MENAGERIE OF VILE BEASTS 19 more creatures gestated in the sick minds of: Jared Oliver Adams Richard Farren Barber Shawn Francis Marlena Frank Wednesday Lee Friday Leigh Harlen Erin Michelle Jendras B.T. Joy Patrick Lacey Sallie McDaniel Logan Noble Jenny Orosel Michael Picco Betty Rocksteady Nisi Shawl Meryl Stenhouse John F.D. Taff Johann Thorssen Aaron Worth THIS NIGHTMARE HAS JUST BEGUN!

Not Your Average Monster, Vol. 2: A Menagerie of Vile Beasts

Literature & Fiction

Shawl, Nisi

Frank, Marlena

Lacey, Patrick

Taff, John F.D.

Barber, Richard Farren

Thorsson, Johann

Kahle, Pete

Worth, Aaron

Harlen, Leigh

Friday, Wednesday Lee

Genre Fiction

Bloodshot Books

From noted short story writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate-history novel set in the Belgian Congo.
What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? 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 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 populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.
 Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.

Everfair: A Novel

United States

Tor Books

Everfair: A Novel (Everfair, 1)

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl

Praised by literary journals, news outlets, and leading fiction magazines, Nisi Shawl is celebrated as an author whose works are lyrical and philosophical, speculative and far-ranging; “…broad in ambition and deep in accomplishment” (The Seattle Times). Besides nearly three decades of creating fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales, and indigenous stories, Nisi has also been lauded as editor, journalist, reviewer, teacher, speaker, afrofuturist, and proponent and mentor of feminism, African-American fiction, and other pedagogical issues of diversity.Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to her work, the third in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover—or learn more of—the vibrant voice of Nisi Shawl, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.Included within these pages are:•Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book•Author interview•Complete bibliography•Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)•… and more!Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Nisi Shawl.Table of Contents includes:• Introduction by Eric J. Guignard• Nisi Shawl: A Biography• The Beads of Ku (fiction)• The Beads of Ku: A Commentary• Otherwise (fiction)• Otherwise: A Commentary• Just Between Us (fiction)• Just Between Us: A Commentary• At the Huts of Ajala (fiction)• At the Huts of Ajala: A Commentary• Street Worm (fiction)• Street Worm: A Commentary• Conversion Therapy (fiction)• Conversion Therapy: A Commentary• Why Nisi Shawl Matters by Michael Arnzen, PhD• In Conversation with Nisi Shawl• Written On The Water: An Essay by Nisi Shawl• A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Nisi Shawl

Guignard, Eric J.

Arnzen, Michael

Prebich, Michelle

Dark Moon Books

From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pistols that shoot poison knives. With this technology, Everfair will attempt to defeat the Belgian tyrant Leopold II. But even if they can defeat their great enemy, a looming world war and political infighting may threaten to destroy everything they have built. "A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies... Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement." -- Karen Joy Fowler

Kinning (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 imperialist tyrants. The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done. Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality--the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding. Meanwhile, Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga return home from a sojourn in Egypt to vie for their country's rule following the abdication of their father King Mwenda. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies. Will Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope, freedom, and equality to anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces inside and out?

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 Socialists from Great Britian 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 populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Nisi Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.

Everfair

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Tantor Audio

Our Fruiting Bodies

Aqueduct Press

Making Amends

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