This was in the wake of similar pacesetter anthologies which featured stories by people of color, including Sheree Renée Thomas’s Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) and, perhaps, earlier Afrocentric predecessors such as Ivor W. The earlier New Suns, with its effusive foreword by LeVar Burton, cast seasoned and emerging writers in cross-cultural stories of chants and altars, harvests and intergalactic odysseys. Nisi Shawl’s New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color is a showcase anthology that features some big names and which enters the scene with big shoes to fill, following as it does hot on the heels of its World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy award-winning predecessor. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |