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Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors. --Wikipedia

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Fledgling

by Octavia E. Butler, Tracey Leigh, Nisi Shawl, and Philippe Rouard First published in 2005 — 18 editions

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Of One Blood, or the hidden self

by Pauline E. Hopkins, Leslie Klinger, Eric J. Guignard, Nisi Shawl, Patty Nicole Johnson, Sandra M. Grayson, Pauline E. Hopkins, and Noel Arthur First published in 1902 — 14 editions

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Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany

by Nisi Shawl, Bill Campbell, and Bill Campbell First published in 2015 — 5 editions
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Everfair

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2016 — 5 editions

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Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

by Author Reviewer Series Editor Cristina B..., Author Jennifer Orme, Prof. Cristina Bacchilega, Book Review Editor Jennifer Orme, Su Blackwell, Shary Boyle, Susanna Clarke, Emma Donoghue, Rosario Ferré, and 16 others First published in 2021 — 3 editions

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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2019 — 3 editions

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Dark Discoveries - Issue #36

by Christopher Golden, Lauren Beukes, and Nisi Shawl First published in 2016 — 2 editions

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Fantastic Stories Present The Dragon Super Pack

by Edith Nesbit, Nisi Shawl, Gerald Hausman, Kenneth Grahame, Naomi Kritzer, Misty Massey, John Teehan, Cynthia Ward, Pauline J. Alama, and 7 others First published in 2016 — 2 editions

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Talk Like a Man

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2019 — 2 editions
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Filter house: short fiction

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2008 — 2 editions
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Semiotext(e) SF

by Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson, Don Webb, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Boston, Ernest Hogan, John Shirley, Nick Herbert, and 28 others First published in 1989 — 2 editions
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Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

by Phoebe Wagner, Brontë Christopher Wieland, A.C. Wise, Kristine Ong Muslim, Daniel José Older, Nisi Shawl, Iona Sharma, Jaymee Goh, Lavie Tidhar, and 28 others First published in 2017 — 2 editions

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Something More and More

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2011 — 1 edition

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People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination

by Nalo Hopkinson, Minsoo Kang, and Nisi Shawl First published in 2017 — 1 edition

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The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness

by Jaymee Goh, Nalo Hopkinson, Nisi Shawl, Vernoica Schanoes, and Sofia Samatar First published in 2017 — 1 edition

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Ruins excavation

by Eric T. Reynolds, Rose Reynolds, Emmeline Wolfe, and Nisi Shawl First published in 2015 — 1 edition

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New Suns 2: More Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Nisi Shawl, Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, and Geetanjali Vandemark First published in 2023 — 1 edition

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Speculation

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2023 — 1 edition

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Clarkesworld Issue 133

by Neil Clarke, Jack Skillingstead, Genevieve Valentine, Xia Jia, Natalia Theodoridou, Finbarr O'Reilly, Nisi Shawl, and Gareth L. Powell First published in 2017 — 1 edition

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Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good

by Nisi Shawl First published in 2018 — 1 edition

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OLID: OL6619666A
ISNI: 0000000038176352
Library of Congress Names: n2008075181
LibraryThing: shawlnisi
VIAF: 36396639
Wikidata: Q7040818
Inventaire.io: wd:Q7040818

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Denise Angela Shawl
Shawl Nisi

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