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She answered herself: “Dr. Space is the New Black? The impromptu choir sounded more soulful than it looked. Toot Sweet Matricia by Suzette Mayr - I had no idea what was going on, but the writing had me so captivated that I didn't care. Nisi Shawl has a true gift for writing from the perspective of children. “I’m afraid I can’t do that, Wayna.” Dr. Ops looked harassed and faintly ashamed. Because Dr. Ops doesn’t want us to.”. They felt cool and small and dry. “Maggies” and “Wallamelon” are the best of these. I wasn’t sure I wanted to anyway. At the door to the showers, it hit her again: a shock of electricity slicing from right shoulder to left hip. “If I had a lab—I’ll set one up in Jubilee—call it neuropathy, but I don’t know for sure what’s causing it.”. “Ooo baby,” she said softly to herself, and went on with what she’d been doing. Last night, Doe had forgiven her, and they’d gone to Thad together. Posted by Nicky Drayden on Oct 17, 2014 in, http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/deep-end/. “Why would we want to find out? Her suit held her up. The rich. She caught her breath and continued in. Wayna understood why. She swallowed quickly. Through the fabric, firm fingers pressed on either side of her spine, from midback to her skull, then down again to her tailbone. “No—I mean yes, but I didn’t ask—” Doe’s expression froze, flickered, froze again. . Hers, no matter how different it looked from the one she was born with. Nisi Shawl -- the complete book list in order (9 books). Wayna was the first one from her hour out of the pool, and it was too soon for the next hour to wake up. He looked like he was listening. Take it easy—outside your locker, of course. She’d wakened alone, a note from Dr. Ops on the mirror, which normally she would have missed. She told him what had happened, feeling foolish all of a sudden. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed. Or maybe not. Stood over her till Wayna focused on her honeywoman’s new face. Enough like it, anyway, to help Wayna acclimate to her download. She worked her legs, shooting backwards like a squid, away from the shallows and most of the other swimmers. Now she spent most of her time as meat. Nisi Shawl is a writer and anthologist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. If Doe came in now, she’d know Wayna wanted him. Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. She’d never felt anything like this, not that she could remember—and surely she wouldn’t have forgotten something so intense . Fellow prisoners passed her heading the other way to the pool: no one she’d known back on Earth, no one she had gotten to know that well in freespace or since the download. Are they being exploited? The original (pink and blue) version shown is worked entirely in garter stitch. “I see what you’re saying, but we’re more like incubators, if you think about it. Tentatively, she kicked and stroked her way to the steps rising from the pool’s shallows, nodding to those she passed. As awful as that sounds, life for Wayna has gotten worse since she downloaded into her meat suit. display: none !important; Dr. Ops’ hardware lay in Psyche Moth’s central section, along with the drive engine. Strong enough, though. Yes. “We didn’t bring a bunch of extra bodies, Wayna,” Dr. Ops said. We were going to be together, at least on the same world. But not now. The voices of the pool’s other occupants boomed back and forth in an odd, uncontrolled manner, steel-born echoes muffling and exposing what was said. So far this morning, she’d felt nothing unusual. There’s a hundred and fifty others that I’ve seen or heard of experiencing major problems—circulatory, muscular, digestive. “Well, what’ll you do if you stay in here?” Doe asked. It was only partly obscured by the genetics charts the other woman taped everywhere. Put your processors on half power?”, “Don’t think so. Not even when Wayna tickled him under his arms. Remote-control units for their immortality investments, protection for their precious genetic material. Enough like it, anyway, to help Wayna acclimate to her download. . She went there early, though, surveying the occupied tables. Not for eight light-years in any direction. Time to get out and get ready for her appointment. .” No response to that. Shawl’s Belgian Congo steampunk novel Everfair came out in 2016 from Tor Books. Could have used a little pruning. Nisi Shawl is a writer and anthologist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Did Earth rid itself of thousands of criminals in the name of exploration and discovery? Shawl writes of integrating their personal spiritual practice of Ifa (a West African animist faith) with the scientific method and writing science fiction. Too bad it wasn't scheduled for later; all the slow, meat—based activities afterwards were a drag. We don’t know jack about this ship. “I went through our ‘voluntary agreement.’ We did our part by letting them bring us here.”, Doe propped herself up on both elbows. Originally published in So Long Been Dreaming, edited by Uppinder Mehan and Nalo Hopkinson. Faceup on her bed, Wayna concentrated fiercely on the muscle groups she’d skipped earlier. They are a Clarion West 2010 graduate, and an active member of the SFWA. Shawl is obviously a voracious reader of science fiction and seems to have the many facets of this most capacious of genres at her fingertips. Nisi Shawl is a writer and anthologist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Plenty of time for that onplanet. Reprinted by permission of the author. Put in some face time with your friends.”. Besides, they won’t have to make people reproduce. × “If we were on Earth, what would you think?”. She never saw Doe again outside freespace. How white. Interview, mother of invention anthology, nisi shawl. See all books authored by Nisi Shawl, including Everfair, and Vampires: The Recent Undead, and more on ThriftBooks.com. “With trustees to watch us all the time, everywhere we go, and this ship hanging in orbit right over our heads.” Robeson sounded as suspicious as Doe; Jawann as placatory as Wayna tried to be in their identical arguments. Unique quit his pacing and faced her, his eyes steady. I just adore totally—’”. Now it sounds so much more inviting. She swirled her arms back and forth, creating waves, making them run into one another. There, then gone—the lash of a whip. Even Wayna was absorbing something from it. The same confused noise, the sound of overlapping conversations. The pool was supposed to be like freespace. Jubilee lay in Amends’ Northern latitudes, high on a curving peninsula, in the rain shadow of old, gentle mountains. It’s a basic drive.”. Never one of her favorite activities, even back on Earth. “Wait—I wanted to ask—” They stopped and she stood up to follow them, taking her half-full plate. Comic books, SFF and good cooking are the essential elements of Brent Lambert. Ops told a trustee you wanted me.”. Her small breasts mounded high here in the pool, buoyant with fat. Her girlfriend has grown aloof, her jealous boyfriend is stuck back in freespace, and her new body–her new and strangely white body–is malfunctioning. “Well, why not?” Another excellent question. When she finished, he sat silent for a few seconds—much more time than he needed to consider what she’d said. She turned on the water and stood in its welcome warmth. Thad didn’t respond, though. Point granted, Wayna?” She sank down again, resting her head on her crossed arms. Xander Odell lives in Washington state with their husband, sons, and an Albanian miniature moose disguised as a dog. They were covered with blond hairs that the water washed into rippled patterns. Nothing else happened. He acted as if she should be flattered by the extra attention. Whose face had this been? Carefully, slowly, she swept the satiny surface with her arms, raising a tapering wave. . Enjoyed this story? Looking for books by Nisi Shawl? Wayna’s jaw ached. Blogs. Nisi Shawl is the co-author, with Cynthia Ward, of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, published in December 2005 by Aqueduct Press.Her short stories have been published widely, including in Asimov’s SF, Strange Horizons, and Infinite Matrix.Her reviews and essays have appeared regularly in the Seattle Times since the turn of the millennium, and she is a … Of course he was a prisoner, too. Dr. Ops presented as a lean-faced Caucasian man with a shock of mixed brown and blond hair. She had lunch with Robeson, Unique, and Jawann. The “Doxology”? Nothing else happened. Wayna stopped moving. Then the ship, with Wayna and 248,961 other prisoners, set off on a long voyage to another star. Thad usually came across as neutral, controlled, the way you could be out of your meat. Since late 2016, Shawl has gone in-depth … The day before planetfall, she went for one last swim in the pool. Ordinarily when her laundry shift was over, she was supposed to show up in the cafeteria and eat. After covering some serious ground in the short-story selections, the non-fiction segments at the end of the book allow the reader to take a deep breath and get to know Nisi Shawl as a person. I can’t make you.”, “I thought you’d understand.” He smiled and hunched his shoulders. “Okay. “He could if he wanted. As Dr. Ops recommended, they skipped dinner. Why not put himself smack dab in the middle where he belonged? All freshly factured, filled with nutrients and the proper amount of fiber for this stage of her digestive tract’s maturation. What was wrong with her? “All I mean is, his only motive in telling us anything was to prevent that from happening.” She spooned some nuggets onto her mashed potatoes and shoved them into her mouth so she wouldn’t say any more. Nisi Shawl, “Deep End” (Jun-06) Nisi Shawl, Everfair (Nov-17) Nisi Shawl, Filter House (Dec-10) Nisi Shawl, ed., New Suns (Dec-19) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Oct-04) Neal Shusterman, Unwind (Feb-13) Vandana Singh, “Life-pod,” from Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, ed. The geometry of this shawl gives the illusion of 3-dimensional ‘steps’, so it looks great in 2 alternating colours, or 6 colours that are progressively darker towards one or both ends, or any number of other variations! She peered down past her dangling feet at the pool’s white bottom. The politically powerful. “I’ll let you know for sure tomorrow morning. . He had amped down his input. Wayna turned to see the clock on the wall behind her. Deep End by Nisi Shawl. 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. I know that this is just a story with fictional characters, but I feel my heart aching for them in an absurd soft of way. She’d been clenching it tight, forgetting it would amp up her inputs. My debut novel THE PREY OF GODS is a near future thriller set in South Africa in which a diverse set of characters imbued with supernatural abilities by a street drug called Godsend must band together against a disenfranchised goddess who intends to remake their world and change the fate of humanity forever. “Of the meat.” Doe nodded. Shawl is obviously a voracious reader of science fiction and seems to have the many facets of this most capacious of genres at her fingertips. “Why do you want to download at all?” he asked. “I am sorry.”. They told Thad about Wayna’s pains, and how Unique thought she should ask for another clone. Wayna was lucky to have Doe with her. At least one hundred fifty; take under-reporting into account and there’s probably more. Nisi Shawl (born 1955) is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. Griots of the Galaxy by Andrea Hairston - Like being in a lush jungle, there's a lot going on. In 2008, her short story collection Filter House won the prestigious James Tiptree Jr award. At least, they won’t want to hurt our bodies.”. Mashed potatoes. You weren’t going to say anything! These people give up the bodies they are born with, have their minds uploaded into a computer, and then are squirted out into new bodies cloned from the privileged, and live on a new planet that almost nothing is known about. “For the wicked carried us away . As if he’d heard her thought, Unique added “I wouldn’t wait, if I were you. She floated, waiting. The temperature varied irregularly, warm intake jets competing with cold currents and, Wayna suspected, illicitly released urine. Download settings had apparently become her default overnight. Robeson walked hand in hand with a slender man whose mischievous smile reminded Wayna of Thad. When Psyche Moth had reached its goal and verified that the world it called Amends was colonizable, her group was the second downloaded into empty clones, right after the trustees. You’re here, and it’s the numbers involved that concern me, though superficially the cases seem unrelated. . In 2008, her short story collection Filter House won the prestigious James Tiptree Jr award. . There was plenty of open freshwater on Amends: a large lake not far from Jubilee, and rivers even closer. Immersion learning. Authors Nisi Shawl, Piper J. Drake, and K. Tempest Bradford will dive deep into character creation with writing exercises, discussion, and lectures on intersectionality, character relationships, avoiding stereotypes and tropes, and depicting characters from different genders, sexualities, classes, ethnicities, ability levels, and religious backgrounds. What she was going through was real. She’d never felt anything like this, not that she could remember—and surely she wouldn’t have forgotten something so intense . Nisi Shawl is the author of Everfair and dozens of short stories, many of which can be found in the James Tiptree, Jr. Award winning and … “I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” he said. Biography When Nisi Shawl was seventeen, they moved from Kalamazoo, Michigan, Celery Capitol of the Midwest, to nearby Ann Arbor. There’d only been those three times, nothing more since seeing Dr. Ops. “There’s no sign of nerve damage,” he told her. Wayna was the first one from her hour out of the pool, and it was too soon for the next hour to wake up. “Who’s to know?” Her voice was too loud, and her jaw hurt. The slaw was too sweet; not enough contrast with the nuggets. She left Doe a message on the board by the cafeteria’s entrance, an apology. Why else would she bother? FANTAST IN FOCUS: NISI SHAWL. Their work has appeared in such venues as Jim Baen’s Universe, Daily Science Fiction, Crossed Genres, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. Their work has appeared in such venues as Jim Baen’s Universe, Daily Science Fiction, Crossed Genres, Pseudopod, and Cast of Wonders. I’m Nisi Shawl, an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and books and essays on inclusivity and representation. They co-authored the renowned Writing the Other: A Practical Approach with Cynthia Ward, and co-edited the nonfiction anthology Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Nisi Shawl is a writer and anthologist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her story collection Filter House was a winner of the 2009 Tiptree/Otherwise Award, and her debut novel, Everfair , was a 2016 Nebula finalist. “You should have,” she went on. Deep End (2004) Excerpt from Nisi Shawl's forthcoming novel The Blazing World (2005) Wallamelon (2005) Wonder-Worker-of-the-World (2005) Cruel Sistah (2005) Little Horses (2007) The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin (2007) But … According to Dr. Ops. Another pain. She turned on the water and stood in its welcome warmth. “You! In 2008, her short story collection Filter House won the prestigious James Tiptree Jr award. “You’re not the only one, though. Too many. Aqueduct Press, PO Box 95787 Seattle, WA 98145-2787 www.aqueductpress.com This book is fiction. That’s it.”. He asked her how she slept, what she massed, if she was always thirsty, other things. © 2004 by Nisi Shawl. = Nisi Shawl was WisCon 35’s Guest of Honor and the editor of WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity.She is coauthor of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, a founder the Carl Brandon Society, and a member of Clarion West’s Board of Directors.She edits reviews for the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a literary quarterly.She’s fairly active on Twitter and Facebook, … Deep End by Nisi Shawl - Inventive and thought-provoking. And then it was morning and they were walking into one of Psyche Moth’s landing units, underbuckets held to the pool’s bottom, to its outside, by retractable bolts, and Dr. Ops unlocked them and they were free, flying, falling, down, down, down, out of the black and into the blue, the green, the thousand colors of their new home. Will he.”, Doe said “Then what is it? Nisi’s other stories and articles have appeared in places like Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Aeon Magazine and Tor.com.Her highly anticipated debut novel Everfair … No; you’d be constantly coming up for breath. Except they’re back on Earth; they won’t be around to see the results of their experiment.”, “Don’t need to be. She had logged off then, withdrawn to sleep in her bunkroom, expecting Doe to join her. She’s able to capture a tension between innocence and knowledge that leads to deeply intriguing stories. Not so strong, this time. His touch, his resistance to her pressure, reassured her. The same glaring lights hung from the ceiling here as in the pool, glinting off plastic plates and water glasses. Heat! Or petri dishes—inoculated with their DNA. She paddled toward the deep end, consciously relaxing her useless facial muscles. But Wayna’s body was hers. The topic was the latest virch from the settlement site. Heat! .” Wayna wondered why the trustee in charge had chosen this song. At the door to the showers, it hit her again: a shock of electricity slicing from right shoulder to left hip. “Sweetheart,” Doe said. It mattered. “One hundred and fifty of you out of the Jubilee group with what might be germ plasm disorders; one hundred fifty out of 20,000. It hadn’t been her fault. Turn you off? Share: Brent Lambert. If you train intensely, you’ll make up the lost time and go down to Jubilee with the rest of us.”. Doe tore aside the paper they had taped across the doorway for privacy. She kept going, almost there. They got Dr. Ops to report back.”, “Once we’re on Amends,” Wayna said, “no one can make us have kids or do anything we don’t want.”, “You think. If the personalities of these clones’ originals had been in charge, what would they be singing now? It wasn’t him. Nisi Shawl (Deep End) Andrea Hairston (Griots of the Galaxy) Suzette Mayr (Toot Sweet Matricia) Nnedi Okorafor (When Scarabs Multiply) Sheree R. Thomas (The Grassdreaming Tree) Wayde Compton (The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale) devorah major (Trade Winds) Carole McDonnell (Lingua Franca) Opal Palmer Adisa (The Living Roots) “Never mind. In 2008, her short story collection Filter House won the prestigious James Tiptree Jr award. He’ll stick to the rules.”. Or—but what it would be elsewhere, that’s irrelevant. He compressed his already thin lips. No one else owned it, no matter who her clone’s cells started off with. Making an ostentatious display of his concern. Shawl writes of integrating their personal spiritual practice of Ifa (a West African animist faith) with the scientific method and writing science fiction. A full-fledged military brat, he is consistently struck by wanderlust and has a keen sense of things never really being permanent. She went in first thing every “morning,” as soon as Dr. Ops, the ship’s mind, awakened her. She had other attacks, some mild, some much stronger than the first. She tried, but she couldn’t. But there was nothing else. She stood in line. They’re not going to hurt us after they brought us all this way. After awhile, Wayna did more and more virches and spent less and less time with her lovers. Wayna would have to go back to her bunkroom until he got off and could come see her. Like all those on board, Wayna was an upload of a criminal’s mind. Her pale fingers stroked Wayna’s face. Swimming through freespace to her locker, she was sure Dr. Ops didn’t know what sorry was. Too bad it wasn’t scheduled for later; all the slow, meat-based activities afterwards were a literal drag. “But Dr. Ops told me my nerves were fine . He could do that. They paid $65 a month rent. I'm the author of the Nebula Award-nominated novel Everfair, an Utopian alternate history set in the Congo during the reign of Leopold II.I've also written dozens of short stories, some gathered in my James Tiptree, Jr. His name was Jawann. Even Doe admitted that. Wayna counted in twelves under her breath, closing her eyes so long she almost logged off. Never had been; never would be. Nisi Shawl's new alternative history novel imagines a group of socialists and missionaries who found a new nation — Everfair — as a safe haven for those fleeing Belgian atrocities in the Congo. Wayna stopped moving. Normally she avoided the mirror, but not this morning. The man that had held Robeson’s hand that morning stood there as if this was where he’d always been. She had huge nipples, not like the ones on her clone’s breasts. She didn’t try to say goodbye. “Robeson said you had some sort of problem to ask me about. Tags: Lightspeed Magazine, Nicky's Pick, Prison Ship, Short Story, Short Women in Space, seven “Bringing in the Sheaves”? Are they getting a new start? Soon as you can.”, “Because your chances of a decent one will just get worse, if this is a radiation-induced mutation. It would never be as full of prisoners again; Thad and Doe weren’t the only ones opting out of their downloads. Her specialty, fiber tech, became suddenly fascinating: baskets, nets, ropes, cloth, paper—so much to learn, so little time. Lie down. She put on her overall and walked up the corridor to her bunkroom. They knew someone, a man called Unique, a nurse when he’d lived on Earth. }. Aqueduct Press, PO Box 95787 Seattle, WA 98145-2787 www.aqueductpress.com This book is fiction. Here he worked in the factury, quality control. No sign of Doe. Singing the same thing. Originally published in So Long Been Dreaming, edited by Uppinder Mehan and Nalo Hopkinson. Doe distrusted Dr. Ops and everything about Psyche Moth. .” The pool reflected music, voices vaulting upward off the water, outward to the walls of white-painted steel. No one said anything for awhile. Thad was scheduled for later download. Maybe that meant he’d been born Hispanic or Middle Eastern. Wayna introduced herself. She sat at a table near the disposal dump. Ops will be in touch first thing tomorrow,” he promised as he left. What was going on? Floating upright in the deep end, she glanced at her arms. Their website is nisishawl.com. Not after that. “But just in case, let’s give you the rest of the day off. A tether almost two kilometers long separated their living quarters from the AI’s physical components and any other mission-critical equipment they might damage. “Stay in here with me.”, “Until I don’t. Deep End (2004) In Colors Everywhere (2013) The Mighty Phin (2016) Like the Deadly Hands (2016) The Best Friend We Never Had (2018) Living Proof (2018) Yes. All Dr. Ops thought they needed to know. . They smiled at each other. Instead of dressing in her overall and reporting to the laundry, her next assignment, she retreated into her locker and linked with Dr. Ops. Would sex underwater be as good as it was in freespace? Making love to Doe in her download seemed like cheating. She’s able to capture a tension between innocence and knowledge that leads to deeply intriguing stories. One of those had told her it was typical to translocate missing freespace controls to their meat analogs. Trustees were in constant contact with the ship’s mind—part of why Wayna hadn’t volunteered to be one. She floated, waiting. After covering some serious ground in the short-story selections, the non-fiction segments at the end of the book allow the reader to take a deep breath and get to know Nisi Shawl as a person.
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