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Product Description "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction
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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. Within this book 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. 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. Review "Allyson Johnson shines as a master of character voice acting in this speculative fiction anthology...Johnson's mastery of tone, pitch, and accent is simply astounding. Indeed, it is Johnson's talent for bringing characters to life that allows the listener to fully enter each short story...Each work is fresh and compelling."-- "AudioFile""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)"Allyson Johnson shines as a master of character voice acting in this speculative fiction anthology featuring authors of color.-- "AudioFile" About the Author Rebecca Roanhorse is a black/indigenous (Ohkay Owingeh) writer of several books of speculative fiction, including two adult books in the Sixth World series, Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts, and a Nebula and Hugo-winning short story, Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience. She isa graduate of Yale and is a lawyer by day who specializes in federal Indian and tribal law. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is Mexican by birth, and Canadian by inclination. She lives in beautiful British Columbia, where she is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel Signal to Noiselong-listed for a Sunburst Award and finalist of the British Fantasy, Locus, and Aurora awardsand the short story collection This Strange Way of Dying, which was a finalist for the Sunburst Award in Canada. She was a finalist for the Manchester Fiction Prize, and a recipient of the Gloria Vanderbilt/Exile Award for Best Emerging Writer. She has edited the anthologies Dead North, Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse, and She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award nominee), among others.Tobias Buckell is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tangled Lands, Crystal Rain, and Halo: The Cole Protocol. His other novels and more than fifty short stories have been translated into seventeen languages. Bucknell has been nominated for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Prometheus, and the Campbell Award for Best New Author. He lives with his family in Ohio.
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