They all struggle to learn what it takes for an ideal to survive politics, illness, compromise, and war. However, they carry with them their own prejudices and passions, and they frequently stumble over their own limitations and wrestle with the eccentricities of their fellows. The members of this eager coalition, the ruling Grand Mote of the new country, purchase land from the so-called Congo Free State, determined to make a better world. None of the co-founders of Everfair, however, are quite prepared for the way collaboration and the challenges of building and sustaining a community will alter the trajectories of their dreams. Together, her colleagues plan a nation where such things as slavery, class exploitation, gender oppression, and colonialism will vanish. Her life will be fueled by a perpetual curiosity to know how machines work - by a fierce wonder at science’s stimulating gifts - and this curiosity will rocket her across the globe to Africa, Europe, and the United States as one the founders of a new Central African nation called Everfair at the turn of the 20th century. Lisette Toutournier spins through the Gallic countryside atop the vehicle, facing her future, enchanted by the freeing and somewhat illicit possibilities of this technology. Nisi Shawl’s historical fantasy Everfair (2016) starts with a simple but bold image: that of a Frenchwoman passionately in love with her bicycle.
HOW DO YOU make a better world? And what will it cost?
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