So as you saw announced elsewhere, New Suns, edited by Nisi Shawl, has just been announced. Here’s the cover:
Which is by the amazing Yoshi Yoshitani by the way. And here’s the Table of Contents:
NEW SUNS, ed. Nisi Shawl.
- Foreword, LeVar Burton
- The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias 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 Yáñez
- 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
In a news cycle that’s featured yet another off the shelf example of ‘The same white men everyone’s heard of oh and also these women I guess’ it’s, to be blunt, a massive relief to see an anthology put together with such care and attention. I can’t wait to read it and I’ll have a review here as soon as I do.