{"product_id":"9781598538113","title":"The Black Fantastic : 20 Afrofuturist Stories by Andre M. Carrington","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"container container--50 u-separator-bottom\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container__content u-separator-right\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"post-text\"\u003e\n\u003csection\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their careers, is conjuring up a very real renaissance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Edited by SF-expert andre carrington, and including Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners alongside emerging and experimental voices, The Black Fantastic showcases the artistry of these breakout literary stars and celebrates the diversity of their talents. Including Afrofuturist science fiction, weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more, here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading and rereading now and far into futurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Reclaiming histories of racism and oppression and seizing the day, these writers are forging kaleidoscopic new senses of Black identity, community, and imaginative freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Andre M. Carrington\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 February 2025 by The Library of America in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 384 pages\u003cbr\u003e216 x 141 x 23 | 464g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paperback \/ softback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55455826182520,"sku":"9781598538113","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0409\/6671\/7600\/files\/9781598538113.jpg?v=1771337551","url":"https:\/\/afroribooks.co.uk\/products\/9781598538113","provider":"Afrori Books LTD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}