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Plenty of science fictions movies from the earliest days of the genre aren't hurt by being in black and white, still worth ...
We’ve drooled over vintage pulp science fiction art from the likes of Virgil Finlay, Frank R. Paul, and Ed Emshwiller b efore.But this mostly black and white interior artwork, scanned and posted ...
For years, black authors stood out in science fiction and fantasy because there were so few. Now, says Alaya Dawn Johnson, though there are still obstacles, black authors are making themselves heard.
Science fiction has long been criticised for its lack of racial diversity and inclusion. It's rare to see a lead character who isn't white. One study of the top 100 highest-grossing films in the ...
Considered the foremother of Black fantasy and science fiction, the free-born Frances Harper spent her life as an outspoken abolitionist and poet. But it wasn’t until she was 67 that she wrote ...
In his editorial, Fireside Fiction Company owner and editor Brian White points to a systematic structure of racial discrimination that has been built into the science fiction publishing community ...
She soon learned not much had changed since she was a teenager herself. Science fiction and fantasy were still largely seen as the province of stereotypically nerdy white men. “I asked them had they ...
However, the idea of Afrofuturism, which often combines science fiction, technology and a Black understanding of liberty, expands beyond pop culture into practice and social action.
Octavia E. Butler was a prominent science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African American women in the field. "Lilith's Brood" by Octavia E. Butler (1987-1989) "Lilith's Brood ...
Science fiction has long been criticised for its lack of racial diversity and inclusion. It's rare to see a lead character who isn't white. One study of the top 100 highest-grossing films in the ...