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Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels by British author Malorie Blackman, with six novels and three novellas. The series is speculative fiction describing an alternative history . The series takes place in an alternative 21st-century Britain.
Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962 [1] in Merton, London, and grew up in Lewisham, one of five siblings.Her parents were both from Barbados and had come to Britain as part of the "Windrush generation"; her father Joe was a bus driver and her mother Ruby worked in a pyjama factory. [2]
The series is set in an alternative history where black "Cross" people rule over white "Noughts". The first episode aired on BBC One on 5 March 2020, [1] and the remaining episodes premiered on BBC iPlayer on the same day. [2] In May 2021, the BBC announced that a second series had been commissioned. [3] The series differs from the book in ...
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Noughts + Crosses: Set in an alternate version of the British Isles, where African powers colonized most of Europe, and enforce a race-based hierarchy. Based on the young adult novel of the same name. 2020 Bridgerton: The Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz is a black woman when in real life she was Caucasian.
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Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game, OXO, a version of noughts and crosses, in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge. [2] [3]