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 Kwanza Osajyefo
Kwanza Osajyefo is best known for his comic series, Black and Black AF. His first volume in the Black Series, is about a young boy who discovers his superhero powers after he is survives being gunned down by police. Black AF is about about a young black female super hero and takes places after the events in Black, where Blacks are the only humans to be gifted with superpowers.
According to Osajyefo's profile he has been working in digital comics since 1999. He began interning at Marvel.com and is now an online associate editor.
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