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The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by people of colour
Octavia 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.
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2 primary booksNew Suns is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, and 16 others.
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What a great collection of short speculative fiction. I think Solaris and Rebellion did a great job of rounding up authors you ought to know–definitely going to go look further into some of them after having read their short stories.
I feel that some of the authors are more suited to the short story format than others, but every story at least had something I could think over: an ending, a concept, a constraint, and so on.
“Ocasta” by Daniel H. Wilson ★★★★
“The Farmer's Wife and the Faerie Queen” by K. Tempest Bradford ★★★★
“Juan” by Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★
“Silk and Cotton and Linen and Blood” by Nghi Vo ★★★★
“Chosen” by Saad Hossain ★★★★½
“Home Is Where the Heart Is” by Hiromi Goto ★★½