Shades Within Us

Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders

by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law (editors), Seanan McGuire, Elsie Chapman, Kate Heartfield, S.L. Huang, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Sarah Raughley, Amanda Sun, and more, Eric Choi & Gillian Clinton (Introduction)

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Pub Date Sep 08 2018 | Archive Date Nov 30 2018

Laksa Media Groups

Sci Fi & Fantasy | Teens & YA

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Description

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose--or are forced--to leave home and familiar places.

Migration. A transformation of time, place, and being . . .

Who are the SHADES WITHIN US?

We are called drifters, nomads. We are expatriates, evacuees, and pilgrims. We are colonists, aliens, explorers; strangers, visitors--intruders, conquerors--exiles, asylum seekers, and . . . outsiders.

An American father shields his son from Irish discrimination. A Chinese foreign student wrestles to safeguard her family at the expense of her soul. A college graduate is displaced by technology. A Nigerian high school student chooses between revenge and redemption. A bureaucrat parses the mystery of Taiwanese time travellers. A defeated alien struggles to assimilate into human culture. A Czechoslovakian actress confronts the German WWII invasion. A child crosses an invisible border wall. And many more.

AUTHORS: Vanessa Cardui, Elsie Chapman, Kate Heartfield, S.L. Huang, Tyler Keevil, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, Tonya Liburd, Karin Lowachee, Seanan McGuire, Brent Nichols, Julie Nováková, Heather Osborne, Sarah Raughley, Alex Shvartsman, Amanda Sun, Jeremy Szal, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Christie Yant & Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
With Introduction by Eric Choi & Gillian Clinton

EDITORS: Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law

RECOMMENDED AGE: Mature Readers (ages 16 and up)

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose-or are forced-to leave home and familiar places. Authors include Seanan McGuire, Elsie Chapman, S. L. Huang, Rich Larson, and Tyler Keevil.

GENRE:
Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

BISAC:
FIC009040 FICTION / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies
FIC028040 FICTION / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
FIC061000 FICTION / Magical Realism

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who...

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A Note From the Publisher

• Available in Hardcover (9781988140087) US$28.00 and EBook (9781988140063) US$7.99

• Available to US and international libraries through Ingram, Overdrive, and Cloud Library (Bibliotheca)

• A donation of $1,000 CAD goes to Mood Disorders Association and Alex Community Food Centre upon its publication.

• A portion of the anthology’s net revenue goes to Mood Disorders Association and Alex Community Food Centre.

• The other anthologies in this series (Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire.

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Advance Praise

"[A]ddresses issues surrounding migration and borders at a very poignant moment in history . . . despite being speculative, many of these stories read like they were ripped from present-day headlines . . . this collection do a great job of asking readers not only to reflect on their own lives but also to consider the lives of others." —Booklist

“An engaging collection of poignant travel through time and space. Highly recommended for its breadth of stories that look at having to leave home-or discover it.” —Library Journal

“An intriguing addition to short story collections.” —School Library Journal

"With each story, the authors expand their settings and reality into a universe of broader potential to make sense of the tensions that plague the twenty-first century. Even as they represent foreign existences, the problems remain the same—family, love, belonging, identity, survival . . . A few of the stories revisit well-worn tropes, but most take a fresh approach to their subjects and conjure terrifying futures brought on by climate change, greed, and corruption of power. Political and daring, this collection adds to the future imagined by Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Aldous Huxley." —Foreword Reviews

". . . Shades Within Us is a timely collection that invites us to ask whether we still do (or still should) live in a space of national borders and national definitions of identity. It invites us to use our speculative imagination to think through new ways of understanding selfhood in relation to the borders, boxes, and categories that are placed around us." —Speculating Canada (Derek Newman-Stille)

"[A]ddresses issues surrounding migration and borders at a very poignant moment in history . . . despite being speculative, many of these stories read like they were ripped from present-day...

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Marketing Plan

• Advance reading copies sent to print and online media, including Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and BookList
• NetGalley galley
• Book display at American Library Association 2018 annual conference (New Orleans)
• Book launches, author or editor appearances at select festivals and genre conventions
• Print and digital advertising campaign • Pre-order campaign

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