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Also by Nisi Shawl:

Kinning, February 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Everfair, September 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
2043...(A Merman I Should Turn to Be), September 2021
e-Book / audiobook
Everfair, September 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Stories for Chip, July 2015
Hardcover

2043...(A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE)
By: Nisi Shawl

Amazon Publishing
September 2021
On Sale: August 31, 2021
31 pages
Kindle: B098QPR7QG
e-Book / audiobook
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Science Fiction | Fantasy

African-descended USians are finally obtaining reparations—underwater. Plunge into the action of a visionary future by the award-winning author of Everfair, with narration by LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

Five miles off the South Carolina coast, Darden and Catherina are getting their promised forty acres, all of it undersea. Like every Black “mer,” they’ve been experimentally modified to adapt to their new subaquatic home—and have met with extreme resistance from white supremacists. Darden has an inspired plan for resolution. For both those on land and the webbed bottom-dwellers below, Darden is hoping to change the wave of the future.

Nisi Shawl’s 2043 . . . (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.