New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Nisi Shawl 9781786188588

Octavia E. Butler said, "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking-breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told.

Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders.

Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcala, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.

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.

"A blockbuster miscellany."-Aurealis

"New Suns 2 offers a composite picture of the best work being done in genre fiction right now"-The Washington Post

"Go get this book and enjoy it."-Lightspeed Magazine

"Shawl uses their penchant for inclusive representation to remind you of the radiance of a promised sun."-Locus