Not So Stories

Not So Stories

Summary

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories-fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism.

In Not So Stories, writers of colour from around the world reclaim these stories and remake them into something new. Something different. Something that belongs to us all.

Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph Elliott-Coleman, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos, Zedeck Siew and Achala Upendran, with illustrations by Woodrow Phoenix and a foreword by Nikesh Shukla.

(P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2020

About the author

David Moore

Born in Australia, David Thomas Moore has lived and worked in the UK since the mid-nineties, and has been writing for roleplaying magazines, fiction websites and short story anthologies for around the same time. He lives in Reading with his wife Tamsin and daughter Beatrix. You're glad you met him.
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