eReaderIQ is a free service which depends on user contributions to stay open. Click here to learn why.
If you would like to contribute to the continued development of eReaderIQ, you can start by clicking one of the buttons below.
I appreciate your support!
Log In to track Nisi Shawl on eReaderIQ.
Children's eBooks
Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn't dreamed of finding a dragon's hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with... See More
FantasyIn celebration of Rosarium's fifth anniversary, publisher Bill Campbell has compiled a two-volume collection of over 100 science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories from around the world. Like space and the future... See More
Historical Fiction
What if a young girl had the power to stop her tyrannical father from battering her mother ever again?What if a student had a secret weapon to end sexual assault by her predatory professor permanently?What if a housewife had... See More
World Literature
Nisi Shawl's steampunk-flavored alternate history of the "Belgian" Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already... See More
Fantasy
An Alphabet of Embers is an anthology of unclassifiables - lyrical, surreal, magical, experimental pieces that straddle the border between poetry and prose. It lives in a place between darkness and sound, between roads and... See More
Fantasy
The September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi... See More
Fantasy"This anthology offers seriously admirable work. Highly recommended." --Arley Sorg, Lightspeed Magazine "24 impressive stories of healing and rebuilding... These stories offer something for any speculative fiction reader."... See More
Science Fiction
From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a foreward from... See More
Historical Fiction
Warriors, pirates, murderers and queens... Throughout history, women from all walks of life have had good reason to be cranky. Some of our most memorable historical figures were outspoken, dramatic, brave, feisty... See More
Horror
NIGHTMARE was founded on the core idea that all horror is real horror. The whole point of this magazine is that horror fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Horror is about all people and for all people. The People of Colo(u)r... See More
Science Fiction
"Readers who've had their fill of dystopian fiction will want to explore these more positive futures." -- Publishers Weekly Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect... See More
World Literature
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... See More
Science Fiction
Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our... See More
Fantasy
Winner of the 2020 Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte and Starburst Awards! "There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color... See More
Science Fiction
Knit robots, build spaceships, and shape the future. If necessity is the mother of invention, what exciting AI might come to exist in the hands of a more diverse range of innovators? Mother of Invention brings genuine... See More
Anthologies & Literature Collections
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD VENTURE OUT OF YOUR HIDING PLACES, HERE COMES ANOTHER HORDE OF HORRORS. Slithering, wriggling, lurking, and creeping. Leaving slick trails of pustulent slime behind them. These aren't your... See More
History & Criticism
Praised by literary journals, news outlets, and leading fiction magazines, Nisi Shawl is celebrated as an author whose works are lyrical and philosophical, speculative and far-ranging; "... broad in ambition and deep in... See More
Literary Criticism & Theory
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and curated for... See More
Science Fiction
The greatest gift to us is caring and sharing, no matter who we are. What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with? Would love survive if we don't care? From the world of twenty-three science... See More
Science Fiction
Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry, and essays edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates. Over two dozen authors, ranging from NYT-bestsellers and award winners to debut... See More
Poetry & DramaIssue 1 comes to life with Darby Larson's "Electroencephalography" where an experiment in robot-building goes terribly awry. And if you've ever woken up with an unexpected physical deformity?say, an arrow in your... See More
World Literature
Filter House is a collection of short fiction by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection's fourteen tales offer a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the... See More
Literary Criticism & Theory
During the 1992 Clarion West Writers Workshop attended by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, one of the students expressed the opinion that it is a mistake to write about people of ethnic backgrounds different from your own... See More
FantasyFantasy Magazine is an online magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy -- from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism... See More
Fantasy
Fantasy
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy... See More
History & CriticismSome time in January of 2011 I wrote to a friend: 'I feel like I am floating in an alternate universe of silver goggles and artificial wombs and look there's Emily Dickinson smoking a cigar.' I was deep inside the process of... See More
Genre Fiction
See the Elephant is dedicated to fiction with a metaphysical slant -- fiction that questions consensual reality and pushes the boundaries of genre -- by both new and established writers from a variety of cultural and... See More
HorrorNIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have... See More
Short StoriesFantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy. Join us as we explore strange new worlds. "A Crash Course... See More