New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Rebecca Roanhorse, Nisi Shawl (Editor), Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Darcie Little Badger, Tobias S Buckell

Overview

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 emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clichés, ready to dazzle you with their daring genius.

Unexpected brilliance shines forth from every page.

Includes stories by Kathleen Alcala, Minsoo Kang, Anil Menon, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yanez, Steven Barnes, Jaymee Goh, Karin Lowachee, E. Lily Yu, Andrea Hairston, Tobias Buckell, Hiromi Goto, Rebecca Roanhorse, Indrapramit Das, Chinelo Onwualu and Darcie Little Badger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781085783
Publisher:	Solaris
Publication date:	03/12/2019
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Award-winning sf/f author; Clarion West alumna; singer; teacher; reviewer; editor; co-founder of the Carl Brandon Society; beginning birder; lover of MJ.

Table of Contents

• Foreword, LeVar Burton
• The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. Buckell
• Deer Dancer, Kathleen Alcalá
• The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations, Minsoo Kang
• Come Home to Atropos, Steven Barnes
• The Fine Print, Chinelo Onwualu
• unkind of mercy, Alex Jennings
• Burn the Ships, Alberto Yanez
• The Freedom of the Shifting Sea, Jaymee Goh
• Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial Attire, E. Lily Yu
• Blood and Bells, Karin Lowachee
• Give Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Shadow We Cast Through Time, Indrapramit Das
• The Robots of Eden, Anil Menon
• Dumb House, Andrea Hairston
• One Easy Trick, Hiromi Goto
• Harvest, Rebecca Roanhorse
• Kelsey and the Burdened Breath, Darcie Little Badger
• Afterword, Nisi Shawl

Editorial Reviews

“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

“Powerful” — Locus

“Varied, rich, and delightful” — Los Angeles Review of Books

“A great choice for people entirely new to genre fiction and a solid read for anybody” — Book Riot

“A celebration of people of color” — Lightspeed Magazine

“An earnest compilation of voices from many ethnicities and backgrounds, exploring their experiences as people of colour, and as marginalised people.” — Tor.com

“New Suns does more than offer a diverse group of writers of colour from different backgrounds: it also offers a diversity of the futures that can be possible in the speculative canon.” — Strange Horizons

From the Publisher