![]() ![]() Its pages are filled with kingdoms and fortifications and magical spaces and floating cities. Master of Poisons, like many fantasy novels, gives us an entire imaginary world. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Nalo Hopkinson, Nisi Shawl, Jennifer Brissett, Rivers Solomon, Nicky Drayden, and Sofia Samatar, who are reinventing speculative fiction for the 21st century. Across these different varieties of fantastic literature, Hairston works in the company of such Black women writers as N. Hairston’s new novel, Master of Poisons, is full-fledged epic fantasy. Her previous books include science fiction ( Mindscape) and what can best be described as magical realism ( Redwood and Wildfire and Will Do Magic for Small Change). ANDREA HAIRSTON IS A playwright and theater director, a novelist, a critic, and the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. ![]()
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