Not So Stories

by Adiwijaya Iskandar, David Thomas Moore (Editor), Joseph Elliott-Coleman, Raymond Gates, Zina Hutton

Overview

Not the Tales You Were Told

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories—fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places—bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling’s writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism.

In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim these stories and remake them into something new. Something different. Something that belongs to us all.

Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph Elliott-Coleman, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos, Zedeck Siew and Achala Upendran, with illustrations by Woodrow Phoenix and a foreword by Nikesh Shukla.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781087800
Publisher:	Abaddon
Publication date:	01/21/2020
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	668,183
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

David Thomas Moore is the Fiction Commissioning Editor at Rebellion Publishing, and the editor of Holmesian alternate-universe anthology Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, Shakespearean shared-world Monstrous Little Voices, Stokerian pseudohistory Dracula: Rise of the Beast and Kiplingesque anti-colonial anthology Not So Stories. Australian by birth, he lives in Reading, England with his wife and daughter.

Joseph Elliott-Coleman has been writing and telling stories since he was a child, with science fiction being his wheelhouse. Enduring and overcoming countless barriers, his work first saw print in the Not So Stories anthology. He lives in Croydon, London.

Back when they were a child, Zina Hutton once jumped out of a window to escape dance class in the Virgin Islands. Now they're a speculative fiction writer who tends to leap headfirst into new stories and worlds the second that inspiration strikes. Zina lives in hot and humid South Florida where they're never far away from a notebook and/or an iguana. Zina currently works as a freelance editor and writer with publication credits in Teen Vogue, Fireside Fiction, The Mary Sue, Strange Horizons, ComicsAlliance, Polygon and The Verge. You can find the majority of their work at their digital arts and culture publication Stitch's Media Mix and on Twitter as @stitchmediamix

Cassandra Khaw writes many things. Mostly these days, she writes horror and video games and occasional flirtations with chick-lit. Her work can be found in venues like Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and more. A Song for Quiet was her latest novella from Tor.com, a piece of Lovecraftian Southern Gothic that she worries will confuse those who purchased Bearly a Lady, her frothy paranormal romantic comedy.

Table of Contents

• Foreword, Nikesh Shukla
• How the Spider Got Her Legs, Cassandra Khaw
• Queen, Joseph Elliott-Coleman
• Best Beloved, Wayne Santos
• The Man Who Played With the Crab, Adiwijaya Iskandar
• Saṃsāra, Georgina Kamsika
• Serpent, Crocodile, Tiger, Zedeck Siew
• How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic, Jeannette Ng
• How the Ants Got Their Queen, Stewart Hotston
• How the Snake Lost its Spine, Tauriq Moosa
• The Cat Who Walked by Herself, Achala Upendran
• Strays Like Us, Zina Hutton
• How the Simurgh Won Her Tail, Ali Nouraei
• There is Such Thing as a Whizzy-Gang, Raymond Gates
• How the Camel Got Her Paid Time Off, Paul Krueger

Editorial Reviews

"For any adult who was charmed by Kipling as a child."

Starburst Magazine

"Whether you love or can't stand Kipling, this is a terrific book."

The B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog

Fantastical fables about why things are the way they are, like Just So Stories... but without all the British Colonialism.” — Alex Wells, Bookriot

Book Riot - Alex Wells

"There is a lot to enjoy here. A book whose time has come..."

Talking About Books - Suroor Alikhan

Funny, touching, and often profound.

Tor.com

All [the stories] are entertaining and thought-provoking. My one criticism of the anthology is that there aren't enough stories in it - I would quite happily read twice as many!

Ruth de Haas

Whether you love or can’t stand Kipling, this is a terrific book.

Barnes and Noble SF&F Blog