Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Nisi Shawl’s speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Nisi Shawl’s debut is an ambitious, fresh take on the steampunk genre. Words like complex and multifaceted are appropriate sprawling and dense. 'A book with gorgeous sweep, spanning years and continents, loves and hates, histories and fantasies. But even if they can defeat their great enemy, a looming world war and political infighting may threaten to destroy everything they have built. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Everfair is an incredibly ambitious, fascinating novel. With this technology, Everfair will attempt to defeat the Belgian tyrant Leopold II. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s “owner,” King Leopold II. Synopsis: Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium’s disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
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