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Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor // ⓘ (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) [1] is a Nigerian American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. She is best known for her Binti Series and her novels Who Fears Death , Zahrah the Windseeker , Akata Witch , Akata Warrior , Lagoon and Remote Control .
Black science fiction or black speculative fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African descent take part or are depicted.
Rebecca Parish [1] was born in Conway, Arkansas, in 1971. [2] She was adopted as a child by white parents, and raised in northern Texas. She has said that "being a black and Native kid in Fort Worth in the '70s and '80s was pretty limiting"; thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape.
Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction; Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia; William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853) Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) Ashley Bryan ...
Perry, who won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her 2022 “South to America,” traces Blackness and the color blue from dyed indigo cloths of West Africa to American blues music to the ...
Nisi Shawl (born 1955) is an African American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories [1] who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.
Nora Keita Jemisin [1] (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. [2] [3] Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim.
Thomas is the editor of the Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora anthology (2000) and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, Dark Matter, winners of the 2001 and the 2005 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, which collect works by many African-American writers in the genres of science fiction, horror and fantasy. [2]