we can build them, but they're not there naturally. - she is most celebrated because she deals with these really tough, nuanced questions around our future. people have looked to her to think about how you create new futures. n.k. jemisin is adapting her own book "the inheritance trilogy" into television. - i'm drawing on the human history of structural oppression as well as my feelings about this moment in american history. i look to science fiction and fantasy as the aspirational drive of the zeitgeist. we creators are the engineers of possibility. - i love that it's not just that we're seeing these black stories, but we're seeing these black stories told by black people. that is the key to this sort of magic of it all. - i think one of the biggest things in the sort of evolution of black actors in the sci-fi genre is that black actors are now front and center. - we're just authentically at the middle of stories