Filter House - Nisi Shawl • BookLikes (ISBN:1933500190)

Filter House

by: Nisi Shawl (author)

3.67 30

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9781933500195 (1933500190)

Publish date: August 1st 2008

Publisher: Aqueduct Press

Pages no: 276

Edition language: English

Category:

Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cultural, Anthologies, African American, Speculative Fiction, Short Stories, Short Story Collection

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Bun's Books rated it

15 years ago

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Thoughtful, intellectually challenging and beautifully written short stories, primarily about women. Most of the stories include elements of speculative fiction, some draw on myth, some have ghosts, or just a hint of weird - some are full out science fiction or fantasy. There is a strong thread of ...

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Books by the Lake rated it

16 years ago

http://Vasha.booklikes.com Books by the Lake 4.0 Filter House

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It’s no accident that the main characters of several of the stories in Filter House are children, and parenting is central to others. Nisi Shawl is an elder who sits the reader down and says "Listen to this story, child, and learn from it." The didactic nature of the stories doesn’t make them dull, ...

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wealhtheow rated it

16 years ago

http://wealhtheow.booklikes.com wealhtheow 0.0

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Co-winner of the 2008 Tiptree Award for excellent sf/f that deals with gender. Her acceptance speech made me teary-eyed, so I absolutely have to check out her stories.

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