Imagining Future Histories: Black Speculative Fiction
This guide is to complement the book display for Black History Month. Featured are Black & African American writers in the Science Fiction community and major important works in this area.
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- Featured author: Sheree Renée Thomas
- Tomi Adeyemi
- Steven Barnes
- Octavia Butler
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Samuel R. Delany
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Tananarive Due
- Minister Faust (Malcolm Azania)
- Andrea Hairston
- Pauline Hopkins
- Nalo Hopkinson
- N. K. Jemisin
- Victor LaVelle
- Karen Lord
- Walter Mosley
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Ishmael Reed
- Kwanza Osajyefo
- Tony Puryear and Ericka Alexander
- Carl Hancock Rux
- Eric Dean Seaton
- Nisi Shawl
- Geoffrey Thorne
- Amos Tutuola
About Octavia Butler
"Octavia Estelle Butler (b. 1947-d. 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. Known for her Patternists series, Xenogenesis series, and Parable series."
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Featured works on display
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Call Number: PS3552.U84 A6 1995
Publication Date: 1995-09-01 -
Call number: PS3552.U84 D38 1997
Publication Date: 1987-05 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 F47 2005
Publication Date: 2005-09-08 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 W5
Publication Date: 1980-07 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 P373 1998
Publication date: 1998-11 -
Call Number: PS3552.U84 K5
Publication Date: 1979-06 -
Call number: PS3552.U84 P37 1993
Publication: Oct. 1993
Interview with Octavia
Octavia Butler: Science Future, Science Fiction. This interview is a clip from a panel discussion delivered at UCLA in 2002. Source: YouTube
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