The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories

A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction--from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning...
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Author: André M. Carrington
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The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by Carrington, André M.

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories

$24.95

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories

$24.95
Author: André M. Carrington
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction--from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning Black authors

"This is essential reading." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their careers, is conjuring up a very real renaissance.

Edited by SF-expert andré carrington, and including Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners alongside emerging and experimental voices, The Black Fantastic showcases the artistry of these breakout literary stars and celebrates the diversity of their talents.

Including Afrofuturist science fiction, weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more, here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading and rereading now and far into futurity.

Reclaiming histories of racism and oppression and seizing the day, these writers are forging kaleidoscopic new senses of Black identity, community, and imaginative freedom.

Author: André M. Carrington
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.62w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781598538113


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/10/2025

About the Author
andré carrington, editor, is the author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (2016). He is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he directs the Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science program.

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