New Suns 2

Nisi Shawl edited the original New Suns anthology. They also edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars and WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity. They co-edited the anthologies Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. They wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair, and the 2008 Otherwise Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 they co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, the standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres.

“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.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review on New Suns

• Foreword, Walter MosleyOcasta, Daniel H. WilsonThe Farmer’s Wife and the Faerie Queen, K. Tempest BradfordJuan, Darcie Little BadgerNeti-Neti, Geetanjali VandemarkEqual Forces Opposed in Exquisite Tension, John ChuSilk and Cotton and Linen and Blood, Nghi VoSuppertime, Tananarive DueGood Night Gracie, Alex JenningsA Borrowing of Bones, Karin LowacheeChosen, Saad HossainHome Is Where the Heart Is, Hiromi GotoBefore the Glory of their Majesties, Minsoo KangHaunted Bodies of WombMen, Tlotlo TsamaaseDragons of Yuta, Rochita Loenen-RuizThe Plant and the Purist, Malka OlderThe Fast Enough Human, Kathleen AlcaláCounting Her Petals, Christopher CaldwellFever Dreams, Jaymee GohAfterword, Grace Dillon