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The World's Only Magazine Dedicated to African American Speculative Fiction!
The Best Yet!
Creative Brother's Sci-Fi Magazine Issue #8
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This issue's contents
Message from the Managing Editor
Droppin Science B Da Bomb by Chris Hayden
Choices by Cecil Washington
Essay: Kwanzaa is for Pagans by LaShawn Barber
He Said, She Said: An Author and an Editor Argue About Black Science
Fiction (an email conversation between Chris Hayden and Ellen Datlow)
Real Life Science--A Patent on a Cure for Aids
Plus more!
An excerpt from the short story "Droppin' Science B Da Bomb" (Part I) by Chris Hayden:
D-Boizz's words blazed hot and bright as dwarf stars and his
sentences stretched across the Virtual Reality horizon as he scrolled
them up up into a starry background sky and away into infinity:
"And so, today, September 18th, in the Year of Our Lord 2195,
when millions of Afrikan Diasporans make their homes aboard massive
space stations in orbit around the earth; when more Black millions
live in cities set in gargantuan man made caverns at the South Pole
of the Moon like jewels in a chalice, and millions more abide in
scores of golden domes shining midst the red dust of Mars;
"When the habitations of Afrikan descended humanity honeycomb
the Main Asteroid Belt three Astronomical Units from the Sun;
"When People of Colour flit about in the solar system on a
rocket powered whim, and sentient robotic scouts, launched by Black
Science, soaring across Interstellar Space on light sails and
starwisps, probe and prick the stars for signs of extra terrestrial
life, and blaze a trail that All Earthseed, of whatever hue, color,
nationality, or origin will one day follow to their Ultimate Destiny;
"When Soul Folk are on the verge of smashing the time barrier
and brown babies beat mechanical minds of cosmic complexity at
quantum chess with almost monotonous regularity;
"At a time when this Center, the illustrious Schomburg, born
in a few file cabinets in a crowded basement in Harlem two centuries
ago, is now a data and technology packed artificial island thirty
kilometers square at the base and forty kilometers high off the coast
of Mother Africa;
"When the Race enjoys health, prosperity, Divine beneficence
and power without parallel in all history, it has for all practical
purposes been made a crime to educate it!"
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