At first this was disorienting for me–I’m very much a character-based reader. It is in a sense the story of an idea, a different kind of grand experiment, more than one person or their personal experience. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.” ( source) It lies across blurred genre lines, at the meeting point of steampunk, historical fantasy, and alternate history.Įverfair is told through a multitude of voices, from King Mwende to Lisette Toutournier, Reverend Thomas Jefferson Wilson to Martha Hunter. It tells the history of a country that never was, one where “Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s “owner,” King Leopold II. Everfair is a story that spans decades and continents.
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