@booklet {10732, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Fourth and Most Important{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Us in Flux}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series. Ed. Ellen Meeropol. Assistant eds. Carina Bissett and Celia Jeffries. Series Ed. Julie C. Day ([Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press]/Essential Dreams Press, 2022), 159-165.

}, month = {2020}, publisher = {Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University}, address = {Tempe, AZ}, abstract = {

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia that serves the interests of the ultra-rich.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-955360-05-0 }, url = {https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/fourth-and-most-important-by-nisi-shawl/}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {10446, title = {"Dumb House"}, howpublished = {New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {227-52}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Andrea Hairston (b. 1952)}, editor = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {10501, title = {King Harvest (Will Surely Come){\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {If This Goes On}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {173-79, with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 179}, publisher = {Parvus Press}, address = {Yardley, PA}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which the U.S. Heartland has walled itself off from the rest of the country and expelled all those who don\’t fit, such as everyone who is not white. Religious fundamentalism has evolved into a politico-religious system with a hereditary monarch who must be ritually killed at regular intervals.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963)} } @booklet {9878, title = {"New Action"}, howpublished = {e-flux}, volume = {no. 93}, year = {2018}, month = {September 2018}, abstract = {

The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {10972, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Slippernet{\textquoteright}: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. \© 2018\ 

}, month = {February 22, 2017}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1732638808}, url = {http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fiction/2017/02/nisi_shawl_s_slippernet_in_slate_s_trump_story_project.html}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976)} } @booklet {8895, title = {Everfair}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history with a flawed utopia, multiracial country established by a combination of British Fabian socialists and African American missionaries within The Congo at its worst in the nineteenth century. Stories set in Everfair are \“The Colors of Money.\” Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Ed. Phoebe Wagner and Bront{\"e} Christopher Wieland (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2017), 198-217; \“Sun River.\” Illus.\ Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt. Ed. Matthew Bright ([UK]: Twopenny Books, 2017), 169-87; and \“Promised.\” Steampunk World. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 53-75.\ A related story is \“Vulcanization.\” Nightmare, no. 40 (January 2016). http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/vulcanization/ Rpt.\ as \“Vulcanization From Nightmare Magazine.\” In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017. Ed. Charles Yu and John Joseph Adams (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 128-40.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {8215, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {301-04}, publisher = {Rosarium Publishing}, address = {Greenbelt, MD}, abstract = {

Dystopia of genetic manipulation.\ Includes a character from 2011 Johnson, R/evolution.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tenea D. Johnson}, editor = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) and Bill Campbell (b. 1970)} } @booklet {9118, title = {"Otherwise"}, howpublished = {Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378.\ 

}, month = {2012}, pages = {90-119}, publisher = {Robinson/RP Teens}, address = {London/Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Paula Guran} }