Our look at the African-American literary imagination continues with a trip into the outer limits of genre writing — science fiction, fantasy... Black Science Fiction and Fantasy Our look at the ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The genre of science fiction has long been a space to dream beyond the limitations of our current world, imagining futures unbound by the confines of race, gender, and inequality.

His argument is that black people may be too practical to make science fiction, so busy contending with varying degrees of a sometimes harsh reality that the stories they tell are more rooted in the ...

This AK Press anthology is named for Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Editors Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha have compiled 20 stories written by people who have dedicated ...

Dr. Omotoyosi Odukomaiya specializes in Black science fiction and women’s literature, with a teaching focus at Hope College on American ethnic literature, Black science fiction and women’s literature.

Introduction : coloring science fiction / Isiah Lavender III -- The Bannekerade : genius, madness, and magic in black science fiction / Lisa Yaszek -- "The best is yet to come", or, Saving the future ...

A group of queer youth of color is putting its imagination into words at an inaugural science fiction and fantasy workshop in Oakland. Earlier this year, Chapter 510. launched a first-of-its-kind ...

Whether it’s black orbs swallowing people in downtown Seoul, murder on Mars or malevolent pigs, August has got science fiction fans covered. There are new titles from big names such as James S. A.