About the Book
There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns, proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction 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.
About the Author :
Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.
LeVar Burton is an actor, director, and educator who has been an icon for more than thirty-five years. He was the host and producer of the influential television program Reading Rainbow for more than three decades, and starred in the TV miniseries Roots and on Star Trek: The Next Generation. LeVar Burton is an actor, director, and educator who has been an icon for more than thirty-five years. He was the host and producer of the influential television program Reading Rainbow for more than three decades, and starred in the TV miniseries Roots and on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Nisi Shawl is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. She is the co-author with Cynthia Ward of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction.
Nisi Shawl is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. She is the co-author with Cynthia Ward of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction.
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 is a graduate of Yale and is a lawyer by day who specializes in federal Indian and tribal law.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow, named one of the best books of summer 2019 by Publishers Weekly; Signal to Noise, named one of the best books of the year by Book Riot, Tordotcom, BuzzFeed, io9, and other publications; Certain Dark Things, one of NPR's best books of the year, a Publishers Weekly top ten, and a VOYA Perfect Ten; the fantasy of manners The Beautiful Ones; and the science fiction novella Prime Meridian. She has also edited several anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (aka Cthulhu's Daughters). She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Others, as in, not you
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.
Review :
Allyson Johnson shines as a master of character voice acting in this speculative fiction anthology featuring authors of color.-- "AudioFile"
"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)"
