“The book I’m working on now, Kinning, is the sequel to my first novel, Everfair. “I would say it would likely be some sort of socialism,” Shawl said. When I asked Shawl during our telephone interview exactly what a better world would look like, their answer intrigued me. They said that they want to write fiction from a place of hope, using “compelling and realistic visions” of a better world. Award winner, Nisi Shawl has been transporting readers to better worlds since they first published their short story “I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer” in Semiotext(e) in 1989. “I think that writing was the closest that I could come to being a magician, which is what I really wanted to do, you know - transform the world,” Shawl said.Ī winner of the 2020 Locus Award, a 2016 Nebula Award nominee, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. It’s that same magical spirit that science fiction writer Nisi Shawl taps into in their numerous tales of utopia which transport readers to future versions - better versions - of our world with just a turn of the page. Three taps and “poof” you’re back in Kansas. In the Wizard of Oz (or The Wiz, if you grew up Black like me in the ‘80s) Dorothy’s ruby-red slippers could transport the wearer to anywhere in the world.
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