The Black Fantastic
20 Afrofuturist Stories
$52.16
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
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 Bl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598538113 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159853811X |
| Author: | Andre M. Carrington |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 326mm x 166mm |
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Critics Review
“This is essential reading.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A truly excellent, wide-ranging collection of speculative fiction by contemporary Black writers; its tutelary spirits are Octavia E. Butler and Sun Ra.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The Library of America has done the world and the reading public a great service with its new anthology… a beautiful variety of works that together help give expression and voice to the wide range of Black creative experiences of the unreal and the possible. This volume would be an excellent introduction for students and scholars alike to the Afrofuturist sub-genre…” —Ancillary Review of Books
About The Author
Andre M. Carrington
Andre 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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