by Nisi Shawl
Some of the better steampunk that I've read recently, but ultimately a bit disappointing.
It's an alternate history in which a genocide doesn't happen. It's about a utopian society that isn't so cleverly set up as to avoid all problems, but in which people work to find different, practical, solutions. It's steampunk that feels utterly plausible. It's a book that acknowledges the tremendo...
Everfair by Nisi Shawl The premise of Everfair is utterly fascinating: an alternate history that takes place in the Congo starting under the reign of the tyrannical Belgian King Leopold II and ending several decades later. As Shawl notes in the forward: "At least half the populace disappeared in ...
There's a lot to like about Everfair, and that's where I want to start. Even the very brief elevator pitch was enough for me to persistently petition my book rep to send me a copy: an alt-history steampunk book set in not-Europe. As a person who reads a lot of this stuff, what a breath of fresh air ...
Eddie Izzard explains colonization in such a way that it highlights the absurdity of people just showing up on a coast and claiming it in spite of the fact that people already lived in that area. As I read Nisi Shawl’s Everfair, I was reminded of Izzard remarking on British colonists’ “cunning use o...
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