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Book SynopsisOctavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy awards), this book liberates writers of many races to tell us tales no one has ever told.
Many things come in twos: dualities, binaries, halves, and alternates. Twos are found throughout New Suns 2, in eighteen science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories revealing daring futures, hidden pasts, and present-day worlds filled with unmapped wonders.
Including stories by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell and Jaymee Goh with a foreword by Walter Mosley and an afterword by Dr. Grace Dillon.
Trade Review“A blockbuster miscellany.”—Aurealis
“New Suns 2 offers a composite picture of the best work being done in genre fiction right now”—The Washington Post
“Go get this book and enjoy it.”—Lightspeed Magazine
“Shawl uses their penchant for inclusive representation to remind you of the radiance of a promised sun.”—Locus
Table of Contents
- Foreword, Walter Mosley
- Ocasta, Daniel H. Wilson
- The Farmer’s Wife and the Faerie Queen, K. Tempest Bradford
- Juan, Darcie Little Badger
- Neti-Neti, Geetanjali Vandemark
- Equal Forces Opposed in Exquisite Tension, John Chu
- Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood, Nghi Vo
- Suppertime, Tananarive Due
- Good Night Gracie, Alex Jennings
- A Borrowing of Bones, Karin Lowachee
- Chosen, Saad Hossain
- Home Is Where the Heart Is, Hiromi Goto
- Before the Glory of their Majesties, Minsoo Kang
- Haunted Bodies of WombMen, Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Dragons of Yuta, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
- The Plant and the Purist, Malka Older
- The Fast Enough Human, Kathleen Alcalá
- Counting Her Petals, Christopher Caldwell
- Fever Dreams, Jaymee Goh
- Afterword, Grace Dillon
