Kinning, Nisi Shawl
Kinning, Nisi Shawl
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Kinning

Author: Nisi Shawl

Narrator: Allyson Johnson

Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/30/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.

The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.

Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus. Through these spores, they seek to build bonds between people and help spread revolutionary sentiments of socialism and equality—the very ideals that led to Everfair's founding.

Meanwhile, Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga return home from a sojourn in Egypt to vie for their country's rule following the abdication of their father King Mwenda. But their mother, Queen Josina, manipulates them both from behind the scenes, while also pitting Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against one another as these countries fight to regain control of their rebellious colonies.

Will Everfair continue to serve as a symbol of hope, freedom, and equality to anti-colonial movements around the world, or will it fall to forces inside and out?

About Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl is a multiple-award-winning writer and editor. Their novel Everfair was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and their short story collection Filter House won the James Tiptree Jr. Award. In 1997, they cofounded the Carl Brandon Society to help give people of color greater visibility in the science fiction and fantasy worlds, and their Writing the Other workshops and accompanying book (cocreated with Cynthia Ward) have taught thousands of writers new ways of thinking about diversity and representation within fiction.

Nisi received the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2019. Speculation is their first novel for young readers. Born near Kalamazoo, Michigan, Nisi now lives near Seattle.


Reviews

3.5 Stars This is a rich alternative history story filled with complex political intrigue. The story is dense yet also rewarding. I can understand this series not being for everyone. Overall, I appreciated the work a little more than actually enjoying it. This is a serious and important work, but les......more

Goodreads review by Laura

I really enjoyed Everfair, so was happy to pick up Kinning. Kinning has a very large, diverse cast whose POVs feel distinctive (which is an accomplishment particularly given the plotline). There are even some brief non-human character POV sections which are really well done. The world-building in the......more

Goodreads review by Hal

I don't write a lot of negative reviews because I have no interest being a hatchetman critic, instead seeing my job as to introduce people to what's out there that they may not find otherwise, in film, music and books. However, it does happen and one such review was of 'Everfair', to which this book......more

Goodreads review by Venneh

I really liked Everfair, so when I saw that this was coming out in January, I may have slammed the request button. This book ends up taking a look at how you come up with the story of who you are as a person, how communism would've unfolded in a world with Everfair in it, and forming new ways of exp......more

Goodreads review by Alan

Rec. by: Previous work Rec. for: Fun guys and fun gals Although Nisi Shawl's novel Kinning would stand on its own, I believe you will want to have read its predecessor Everfair anyway (as I did, back in 2018) before tackling this one. And even with that experience, I struggled through the dry beginnin......more