Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Book Review: Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Edited by Tia Ross. Flame Tree, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-83964-480-1
Bookshop Ross brings together 20 classic and contemporary writers for this excellent primer on Black sci-fi writing, with stories ranging from the pensive to the action-packed. The thought-provoking foreword by Temi Oh, who also contributes the emotionally charged short story âAlmost Too Good to Be True,â and scholarly but accessible introduction from Sandra M. Grayson, set up any newbie to Black science fiction with a crash course in its historical context and contemporary relevance. Canonical authors including W.E.B. Du Bois, whose apocalyptic âThe Cometâ concerns ...
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