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and the absurdity of finding one's footing after the ground gives way

all of whom adored Becker

exploring their hopes

Talk Like a Man G.P. Putnam's Sons Vienna at the dawn ofNisi Shawl's steampunk flavored alternate history of the "Belgian" Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already established them as a cutting edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Suzy McKee Charnas. In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores