- Utopias, Colonies, Colonization, Fiction
An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
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Classical in form, epic, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Nisi Shawl
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 383
- Publisher
- TOR, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tor Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765338068
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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* *Photo Attribution:* K Tempest Bradford, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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