Kinning
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Nisi Shawl. (2024). Kinning. Tor Publishing Group.

Nisi Shawl. 2024. Kinning. Tor Publishing Group.

Nisi Shawl, Kinning. Tor Publishing Group, 2024.

Nisi Shawl. Kinning. Tor Publishing Group, 2024.

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   • bioText: Nisi Shawl (they/them) is a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and a journalist. They are the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction. Their short stories have appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and numerous other magazines and anthologies.
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Kinning, the sequel to Nisi Shawl's acclaimed debut novel Everfair, continues the stunning alternate history where barkcloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.
The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.
Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality—the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding.
Meanwhile, Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga return home from a sojourn in Egypt to vie for their country's rule following the abdication of their father King Mwenda. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies.
Will Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope, freedom, and equality to anticolonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces inside and out?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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   • source: The Washington Post on Everfair
   • content: "A beautifully written and thrillingly ambitious alternate history . . . It's a tribute to Shawl's powerful writing that [their] intricate, politically and racially charged imaginary world seems as believable--sometimes more believable--than the one we inhabit."
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   • source: Karen Joy Fowler on Everfair
   • content: "Nisi Shawl's Everfair is a book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies. Set against the big canvas of King Leopold's horrific rule in the Congo, [their] engaging, passionate characters struggle to make the right choices in a world that is almost ours, but not quite. Everfair is sometimes sad, often luminous, and always original. A wonderful achievement."
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   • source: Ursula K. Le Guin on Filter House

   • content: "From the exotic, baroque complexities of 'At the Huts of Ajala' to the stark, folktale purity of 'The Beads of Ku,' these fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic."
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     August 1, 2023
     

     Published in 2016, Shawl's attention-getting Everfair imagined a Fabian socialist sanctuary for Africans within 19th-century Africa maintained by steam-powered tools and airships. In this follow-up, infighting among the royal family threatens the country even as European countries struggle to hold onto their colonial holdings on the continent after World War I. With a 75,000-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

     Copyright 2023 Library Journal

     Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 20, 2023
     In this ambitious outing, Shawl broadens the scope of their alternate history of the early 20th century to show how the eponymous independent African country whose founding was the subject of their first book, 2016’s Everfair, interacts with the rest of the world. Now the two children of Everfair’s king, Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga, both claim the right to accession to the throne, while outside powers attempt to gain leverage in the kingdom’s politics. Meanwhile, Europe is in the midst of an influenza epidemic, for which a Chinese scientist has discovered a cure that involves spores that create empathic bonds between small groups of people. Siblings Tink and Bee-Lung set out to distribute the spores among residents of nations unwilling to accept them. There are so many characters and story lines to track that at times readers may become discouraged, but they’re in capable hands with Shawl, who has clearly done the research to create this expansive and well-crafted world. Those who stick with it will be happy they did.

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     Starred review from January 1, 2024
     It's been eight years since Shawl introduced their alternate-history, anticolonial, steampunk world in Everfair (2016). Kinning is absolutely worth the wait. Immediately following World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution fails, but a group of Chinese socialists discovers a botanical method to generate near-psychic connections between groups of people. They hope to spread this Spirit Medicine to achieve worldwide anticolonialist goals without the need for revolution. Groups of European powers hatch a plan to drain the Mediterranean to gain land to compensate for their losses of colonial territories, and Russia develops an inoculation against influenza with some very unexpected side effects. The kingdom of Everfair remains a prize to be courted by all world powers, and its rulers play a daring game against one other. Kinning is a complex tale with a more explicitly worldwide scope than its predecessor. It offers a nuanced exploration of morality and ethics, greed and selflessness, duplicity and honesty, identity and responsibility, where the balance between individuality and collectivism is constantly at question. The scope of Shawl's imagination will leave the reader in awe, and their attention to detail is unparalleled. Kinning is a beautiful, hopeful, stunning evolution of one of the most unique alternate histories ever conceived.

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The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.
Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via aircanoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality—the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding.
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