TY - ABST T1 - “Fourth and Most Important” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ SN - 978-1-955360-05-0 UR - https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/fourth-and-most-important-by-nisi-shawl/ N1 -

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.

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Illus. Nina Miller

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dumb House" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrea Hairston (b. 1952) ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Harvest (Will Surely Come)” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Action" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

JF - e-flux VL - no. 93 UR - http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Slippernet’: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project SN - 978-1732638808 UR - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fiction/2017/02/nisi_shawl_s_slippernet_in_slate_s_trump_story_project.html N1 -

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 

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Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everfair Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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 Brontë 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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany PB - Rosarium Publishing CY - Greenbelt, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Otherwise" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Paula Guran KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA N1 -

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. 

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Merril, PSt, Public

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