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By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Provocative Book, National Museum Exhibit Explore Power Of Afrofuturism And Black Imagination

45 years after Octavia Butler wrote her defining work, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins—the showrunner of FX's new adaptation—explains how he honored the author's "artistic attack."

Sixteen years after the visionary novelist’s death, Hollywood is bringing a slew of her intense sci-fi novels to the screen.

Last year, I was so inspired by the various Best Of, Must Read, Smashing Science Fiction and Fantasy lists I encountered around the net that I decided to make my own book list, books chosen entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field . People enjoyed the first list so much that I perpetrated sequels. I posted a number of lists, each twenty books long, each selected entirely on the basis of merit and significance to the field (ahem). Here, at last, the quintessence of Nicoll lists, comprising the books I would most heartily recommend. Each entry is annotated with a short descr...

11 Otherworldly Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books Written By Black Authors Photo: Amazon As a Black woman and nerd-content enthusiast, I sometimes struggle to find representation of blackness in mainstream fantasy and sci-fi. While I enjoy stories like His Dark Materials, Game of Thrones, and Harry Potter, and they do include characters of color, the stories are largely told from white protagonists’ perspectives. So I often seek to add other narratives that allow Black and brown readers to more easily put themselves in the protagonist’s shoes, and fortunately, more of these stories are coming t...