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

Jillian Turecki's holistic

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one

cases of misconduct in science and flagging economic performance broke the trust between politics and science

Talk Like a Man G.P. Putnam's Sons and the absurdity of findingNisi 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