New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by people of colourOctavia 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.

Publishers Weekly, starred review on New Suns

“This book’s wide range of stories is its greatest strength; though no reader will love them all, every reader will find something worth rereading.”

LA Review of Books on New Suns

“A varied, rich, and delightful collection of new speculative fiction... Get hold of this excellent anthology. You won’t regret it.”

Locus on New Suns

“This is a strongly balanced anthology, and a powerful one – surely one of the best original an­thologies of 2019.”

Tor.com on New Suns

“An earnest compilation of voices from many ethnicities and backgrounds, exploring their experiences as people of colour, and as marginalised people.”

Strange Horizons on New Suns

“New Suns does more than offer a diverse group of writers of colour from different backgrounds: it also offers a diversity of the futures that can be possible in the speculative canon.”

Future Fire on New Suns

“New Suns showcases contemporary talents with a purpose, and does so extraordinarily well. This book is one of the strongest anthologies I have read in years, and I highly recommend it!”

Aurealis

“A blockbuster miscellany.”

The Washington Post

“New Suns 2 offers a composite picture of the best work being done in genre fiction right now”

Lightspeed Magazine

“Go get this book and enjoy it.”

Locus

“Shawl uses their penchant for inclusive representation to remind you of the radiance of a promised sun.”

AudioFile Magazine

“A rich collection that offers up something for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.”

About the Author

Nisi Shawl edited the original New Suns anthology. They also edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars and WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity. They co-edited the anthologies Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. They wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair, and the 2008 Otherwise Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 they co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, the standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres.

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