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 Tony Puryear and Ericka Alexander
"Erika Alexander is an award-winning actress, a writer and producer. She is known to television fans as "Maxine Shaw" from the hit series Living Single (for which she won two NAACP Image Awards) and as "Cousin Pam" on The Cosby Show." Together with her husband, Tony Puryear, a screenwriter and director, they authored the graphic novel series, Concrete Park. Concrete Park covers a string of characters, who are exiled to a distant planet and struggle to survive in a strange and dangerous world. - Source: concretepark.com
Photo: BlackFilm.com
Interview
"SDCC 2014: Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander talk Concrete Park". Blackfilmweb via YouTube.com
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