Black Science Fiction
Explore the best Black science fiction books! Discover groundbreaking novels by Black authors, featuring futuristic worlds, Afrofuturism, and visionary storytelling.
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Dark Matter
by Sheree R. Thomas
This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.
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Night Bites
by Victoria A. Brownworth
A collection of vampire stories by women includes elements of African folklore, Eastern European vampire traditions, and a humorous story about a Jewish vampire
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
by Octavia E. Butler
A stunning collection of chilling fiction, including Hugo and Nebula Award winning stories, from the 'grand dame' of science fiction, whose 'Parable of the Sower' has now sold over 100,000 copies. In a field dominated by white male authors, Octavia E Butler's perspectives on the sci-fi genre is certainly unique.
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The Dark-thirty
by Pat McKissack
A collection of original stories rooted in African-American history and the oral storytelling tradition, "The Dark Thirty" are stories that should be told at that special time when it is neither day nor night and when shapes and shadows play tricks on the mind. A Coretta Scott King Award Book. A Newbery Honor Book.
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Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany
Describes life after the cataclysm in the American city of Bellona, where the skyies are darkened from burning buildings, the population consists of youth gangs and drifters, and a charismatic poet leads them to a better life
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Lilith's Brood
by Octavia E. Butler
The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
When a young black woman is drawn 150 years into the past, she doesn't realize that it is only the first of many times she will be called upon to save the life of a Maryland plantation owner who turns out to be her ancestor nor how involved she will become in the lives of the slaves on his plantation.
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Black No More
by George S. Schuyler
A scathingly humorous look at pre-war race relations, this is an extraordinary satire on the the theme of colour. When a New York physician discovers a method to turn black people white, the longest line of clients that Harlem has ever seen forms outside his surgery. The doctor simply has to name his price and his customers will beg, steal or borrow to purchase the remedy that will deliver them from their dark nightmare.
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Stigmata
by Phyllis Alesia Perry
A compelling and utterly intriguing tale, Stigmata weaves together the stories of three women, at once blessed with a powerful vision, and cursed by a shared legacy of slavery, pain, and struggle.
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The Between
by Tananarive Due
When Hilton was just a boy, his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him from drowning. Thirty years later, he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that accident, and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton's wife, the only elected African-American judge in Dade County, FL, begins to receive racist hate mail, he becomes obsessed with protecting his family. Soon, however, he begins to have horrible nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are the strange dreams trying to tell him something? His sense of reality begins to slip away as he battles both the psychotic threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep. Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between follows the struggles of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves, but may have already lost. The compelling plot holds readers in suspense until the final, profound moment of resolution.
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A.D.
by Saab Lofton
By 2030 the Nation of Islam and the White Aryan Resistance have divided the U.S. into racially segregated regimes. But what has happened by 2410? A [science fiction] tribute to Malcolm X. [out/post][fiction][race]