Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
10 best books like Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Sheree Thomas): Brown Girl in the Ring, Space Unicorn Blues, Certain Dark Things, The Female Man, The Black God's Drums, Bloodchild and Other Stories, Midnight Robber, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, Futureland, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0446674338 |
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman...
| Author | T.J. Berry |
| ISBN | 0857667815 |
A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.
Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power...
| Author | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| ISBN | 1250099080 |
Welcome to Mexico City… An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires…
Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life.
Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0807063134 |
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.
I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
| Author | Octavia E. Butler |
| ISBN | 1583226982 |
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who...
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| ISBN | 0446675601 |
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It's Carnival time, and the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the...
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.
Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer...
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 0446610739 |
Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to...
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
| Author | Nisi Shawl |
| ISBN | 1781085781 |
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races
There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352097 |
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing visionary fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. This book brings twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections...
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
| Author | Bill Campbell |
| ISBN | 0989141144 |
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a groundbreaking speculative fiction anthology that showcases the work from some of the most talented writers inside and outside speculative fiction across the globe—including Junot Diaz, Victor LaValle, Lauren Beukes, N. K. Jemisin, Rabih...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0140046704 |
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an ageing London barrister who defends any and all clients. The original show has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140170367 |
What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 1560975075 |
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0811228428 |
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms...
African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Warrior. Samurai. Legend.
“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington Post
The remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.
When...
A Net of Fireflies: Japanese Haiku and Haiku Paintings
| Author | Harold Stewart |
| ISBN | 0804818940 |
I like these "verse translations", but purists be warned: Stewart has translated each haiku into a rhyming couplet having the same "punch" as (I assume) the original. I have not yet read the essay that comprises the latter half of the book; perhaps the author explains his choices therein. Nonetheless,...
