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Filter House
Filter House, the first collection of Nisi's short fiction, will come out from Aqueduct Press in late May, 2008. Filter House, contains three previously unpublished stories and eleven reprints, plus an introduction by Nebula Award-winner Eileen Gunn."From the exotic, baroque complexities of 'At the Huts of Ajala' to the stark, folktale purity of 'The Beads of Ku,' these fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic."
"A traveling story-bazaar, offering treasures and curios from diverse lands of wonder."
"Nisi uses the tools of future and fable...to magically reveal what and who we all are here and today."
- Introduction: Where Everything Is a Bit Different, by Eileen Gunn
- At the Huts of Ajala
- Wallamelon
- The Pragmatical Princess
- The Raineses'
- Bird Day
- Maggies
- Momi Watu
- Deep End
- Good Boy
- Little Horses
- Shiomah's Land
- The Water Museum
- But She's Only a Dream
- The Beads of Ku
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Water World
Nisi Shawl will co-teach "Water World" at Centrum, April 6-11, 2008.
"Little Horses"
Nisi's first crime story, "Little Horses," is set on Detroit's Belle Isle and the Ambassador Bridge circa 1960. It appears in the recent Detroit Noir anthology from Akashic Books, also featuring Loren Estleman and Joyce Carol Oates. You can read an interview, and read a review of the anthology.
New Stories
"To the Moment," Nisi Shawl's new story, has just been posted at Reflection's Edge.
Nisi Shawl's 2004 story "Deep End" was reprinted along with China Mieville's "Jack" in a limited edition chapbook published this summer by Think Galactic Literary Cooperative. Think Galactic is a Chicago-based leftist organization which sponsors a book discussion group. They published this chapbook on July 14, 2007, in conjunction with their first convention, Think Galacticon.