Books written by Nisi Shawl

  • Steampunk World

    ... K. Spendlove Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira Filho Jared Axelrod Jared Hammaker Jasmine Stairs Jason Heller J Daniels Jean Marie Ward Jeff Hummel Jeff "Lepef" Coquery Jeffrey Allan Boman Jen Edwards Jen Huang Jennifer Brozek Jennifer Kahng ...

  • Indescribable Ossuary

    recompose: to compose again or differently. This is the first pre-crowdfunded issue of recompose, #0.

  • Giving the Devil His Due: Special Edition

    What if a young girl had the power to stop her tyrannical father from battering her mother ever again?What if a student had a secret weapon to end sexual assault by her predatory professor permanently?What if a housewife had unusual means ...

  • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

    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.

  • The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound

    Featuring Original Stories by Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Brenda Cooper, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Juliet Marillier, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex ...

  • Streets of Shadows

    Carol J. Guess Cat Barth Celia Voyles Chadwick Ginther chaos Charles Crowe Christine Bell Colleen R. Craig Craig Thornton Cynthia K. Marshall Cynthia Ward D Taylor-Rodriguez D-Rock Dale Mazzola Damit Senanayake Dana Danielle B Darryl ...

  • Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project: A Tor.com Original

    We have assembled this flash fiction collection featuring several of the best writers in SF/F today, including Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Maria Dahvana Headley, Jo Walton, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherynne M. Valente, Brooke Bolander, ...

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

    Then a blue boy entered the room. He didn't see them at first. He removed his shirt and faced a mirror on the back of the door. The girls were awed by the deformities of his body: the too-long back, the emaciated legs, the severe angles ...

  • Giving the Devil His Due Anthology: Special Edition

    Giving the Devil His Due Anthology: Special Edition

  • Not Your Average Monster, Vol. 2: A Menagerie of Vile Beasts

    NOT YOUR AVERAGE MONSTER, VOL. 2: A MENAGERIE OF VILE BEASTS 19 more creatures gestated in the sick minds of: Jared Oliver Adams Richard Farren Barber Shawn Francis Marlena Frank Wednesday Lee Friday Leigh Harlen Erin Michelle Jendras B.T. ...

  • River

    There is only one River. Really. And it's all of them. Every river is dfferent - and yet they're all the same, vast and full of life and death and mystery and history and adventure and quiet dreams. Full of life. Full of mystery.

  • Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

    A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany Nisi Shawl. are we gonna to do?” Not we; her. She would do it. “Hush, Pa.” It wouldn't be Billy. Ma and Pa were showing her that you couldn't count on love and hard work alone to pull you through.

  • Everfair: A Novel

    A Novel Nisi Shawl. and shouts in many tongues surrounded him as he walked now at the head of his retinue. The shouts came from the Mah-Kow laborers erecting steel frames for Kisangani's high new houses; from the Zanzibari traders ...

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl

    Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard present this introduction to the work of Nisi Shawl, #3 in a series of scholarly primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction.

  • Writing the Other: A Practical Approach

    Many writers avoid creating characters of different ethnic backgrounds than their own out of fear that they might get it wrong. To address this fear, Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward...

  • Talk Like a Man

    In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected horizons (and corners) opened up by science fiction and fantasy's new diversity.

  • Crossed Genres Quarterly 4

    Quarterly 4 contains Issues 34 (Monsters), 35 (Dark Comedy) and 36 (Different), plus exclusive new content!TABLE OF CONTENTSIssue 34: Monsters* "The Fire" by Timothy T. Murphy* "Inhuman Resources" by William Gerke* "Waiting in the Light in ...

  • The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Futurism

    his volume of the WisCon Chronicles celebrates, challenges, and discusses the varied faces of WisCon 36—including the pre-con controversy surrounding an invited Guest of Honor and the revocation of that invitation, as well as the history ...

  • Something More and More

    Something More and More

  • Super / Natural: Art and Fiction for the Future

    super / natural is a literary call to action. finding where we're headed and what our future(s) will look like when we get there. through art, poetry, and prose, twenty-three visionaries tackle the idea that to be the future we must first ...