What Makes Science Fiction and Fantasy Afrocentric?

The publishing world has enjoyed the swelling growth and profitability of Black romance and urban novels. Booksellers and public libraries are stocking their shelves with publications that offer gritty tales of the dark mean streets or outrageous Black gangsters. But there is another wave on the horizon; another genre that may soon rival the expensive cars, dangerous pimps and desperate ex-cons; a rising tide of titles that presents hi-tech space ships, cunning barbarians, and savvy time travelers featuring African Americans characters in Black sci-fi and fantasy.

Black Science Fiction (or Afrofuturism), AFRO Sci-Fi as well as “Sword-and-Soul” loosely can be defined as an intellectual and cultural movement that explores the African American relationship with new technology, musings of the future, and heroic fantasies. Sci-fi and its cousins featuring characters of Caucasian background have been around since Jules Verne (1848-1905) and H. G.

Wells (1866-1946). But today, in the 21st ... more.

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