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From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences.

Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull.

In this re-imagining of Belgium''s disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State''s owner, King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pis

Everfair

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    A Paperback / softback by Nisi Shawl

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 17 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250212313
      978-1250212313
      ISBN-10 1250212316

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences.

      Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull.

      In this re-imagining of Belgium''s disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State''s owner, King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven for native populations of the Congo as well as settlers from around the world, including dream-eyed Europeans attempting to create a better society, formerly enslaved people returning from America, and Chinese railroad builders escaping hard labor. Using the combined knowledge of four continents, Everfair becomes a land of spying cats and gulls, nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, and silent pis

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