Oh man, I was so excited to read Everfair. It won or was nominated for basically every major speculative fiction award. And the premise is just awesome — a reimagining of the history of the Belgian colonization of the Congo, where Afrofuturistic steampunk technology turns the region’s history away from the atrocities committed by King Leopold. Buttttt … well, let me pull out a couple of threads from this — and I mean this earnestly — this incredibly idea-rich, epic work. The book is told […]