Nisi Shawl is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. She is the author of Everfair, and the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.

This book's wide range of stories is its greatest strength; though no reader will love them all, every reader will find something worth rereading

• Foreword, LeVar BurtonThe Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. BuckellDeer Dancer, Kathleen AlcaláThe Virtue of Unfaithful Translations, Minsoo KangCome Home to Atropos, Steven BarnesThe Fine Print, Chinelo Onwualuunkind of mercy, Alex JenningsBurn the Ships, Alberto YanezThe Freedom of the Shifting Sea, Jaymee GohThree Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire, E. Lily YuBlood and Bells, Karin LowacheeGive Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister, Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Shadow We Cast Through Time, Indrapramit DasThe Robots of Eden, Anil MenonDumb House, Andrea HairstonOne Easy Trick, Hiromi GotoHarvest, Rebecca RoanhorseKelsey and the Burdened Breath, Darcie Little BadgerAfterword, Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. She is the author of Everfair, and the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.

This book's wide range of stories is its greatest strength; though no reader will love them all, every reader will find something worth rereading

• Foreword, LeVar BurtonThe Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. BuckellDeer Dancer, Kathleen AlcaláThe Virtue of Unfaithful Translations, Minsoo KangCome Home to Atropos, Steven BarnesThe Fine Print, Chinelo Onwualuunkind of mercy, Alex JenningsBurn the Ships, Alberto YanezThe Freedom of the Shifting Sea, Jaymee GohThree Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire, E. Lily YuBlood and Bells, Karin LowacheeGive Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister, Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Shadow We Cast Through Time, Indrapramit DasThe Robots of Eden, Anil MenonDumb House, Andrea HairstonOne Easy Trick, Hiromi GotoHarvest, Rebecca RoanhorseKelsey and the Burdened Breath, Darcie Little BadgerAfterword, Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. She is the author of Everfair, and the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.

This book's wide range of stories is its greatest strength; though no reader will love them all, every reader will find something worth rereading

• Foreword, LeVar BurtonThe Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. BuckellDeer Dancer, Kathleen AlcaláThe Virtue of Unfaithful Translations, Minsoo KangCome Home to Atropos, Steven BarnesThe Fine Print, Chinelo Onwualuunkind of mercy, Alex JenningsBurn the Ships, Alberto YanezThe Freedom of the Shifting Sea, Jaymee GohThree Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire, E. Lily YuBlood and Bells, Karin LowacheeGive Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister, Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Shadow We Cast Through Time, Indrapramit DasThe Robots of Eden, Anil MenonDumb House, Andrea HairstonOne Easy Trick, Hiromi GotoHarvest, Rebecca RoanhorseKelsey and the Burdened Breath, Darcie Little BadgerAfterword, Nisi Shawl