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 Tomi Adeyemi
"Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American writer and creative writing coach based in San Diego, California. After graduating Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she received a fellowship that allowed her to study West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil. When she’s not working on her novels or watching Scandal, she can be found blogging and teaching creative writing to her 4,500 subscribers at tomiadeyemi.com. Her website has been named one of the 101 best websites for writers by Writer’s Digest. Her debut West African YA Fantasy novel is Children of Blood and Bone." - Tomiadeyemi.com
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Call number: PZ7.1.A24 Chi 2018
Publication date: 2018-03-06
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