Descriere Everfair

An award-winning alternate history / historical fantasy / steampunk novel set in the Belgian Congo, from acclaimed short story writer Nisi Shawl. Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull. What happens when maimed Congolese farmers escape from their enslavement in deadly rubber groves? When 19th century socialists create their own Utopia? When a Chinese railway builder swaps hard labor for inventive brilliance? When a fighting Christian minister discovers that really old-time religion? In Shawl’s exciting steampunk adventure, brave Black missionaries team up with dream-eyed socialists and ambitious locals to found Everfair, a land of spying swarms of cats and gulls, of nuclear dirigibles buoyed by barkcloth balloons, of sleek and silent pistols shooting poison knives. But after Everfair’s enemy, the Belgian tyrant Leopold II, is defeated, heroes from four continents must find a way to live together in harmony—if World War I will let them.