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Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 10:05 am: | 
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We need more science fiction writers of the African and African American perspectives. I am sick and tired of all of the gangsta, baby mama drama, and minstrel literature that is outthere. Black people do and can think. There needs to be stories that reflect that.
ie: Octavia Butler, Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Dawn, etc. |
Lambd
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 01:34 pm: |
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I'm not very interested in Black Sci-Fi. I wonder how many blacks that actually buy books are iterested in sci-fi. If I were to write some sci-fi, would I make any money?
What are alien pimps in rocket fueled cadillacs going for nowadays, anyway? |
Yoda
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 01:51 pm: |
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Lambd:
Speak for yourself. A lot of blacks would like the change of pace Sci-Fi books offer. Variety of the spice of life. |
Chris Hayden
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Anonymous and Yoda:
I doubt that there is enough of a market to justify it. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 07:26 am: |
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Where is Claxton? |
Lambd
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 09:53 am: |
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Yoda:
I'm sorry. I thought it was clear that each post is that persons opinion.
Variety is the spice of life, however, variety for some people is not so spicy to others. I could easily come up with an outline for some pretty decent African American sci-fi novels, but I'm sure the consumer base for that type of undertaking is small in comparison with more 'life imitating' story lines. |
Crystal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 12:40 pm: |
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The consumer base may be small but it’s there and if someone feels the need to write sci-fi and can do it well – let ‘em. Encourage them! I’ve only pecked at the surface with Octavia Butler and Tananarive Due but they are among my favorite writers and I plan on reading more black sci-fi in the near future. Sometimes there’s so much real life going on that escaping to another world is fun for a little while. I’m gonna try Brandon Massey next, although I guess he’s more of a horror/thriller writer … but that’s better than the baby mama drama I just read. I’ve enjoyed the couple of short stories by him that I’ve read. |
Lambd
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 08:12 am: |
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I never realized there was such an interest in Black Sci-Fi. Maybe I'm missing something. I'd like to know what the very best BSF book that you
can recommend is. I'll go get it, read it and get back to you. Hopefully, you will have opened my eyes to something new for me. If I like it, I'll start encouraging more of it, and may even give it a shot myself. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 11:04 am: |
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Lambd:
Just plow through the lot of them and make up your mind for yourself. I am partial to FUTURELAND by Walter Moseley, DRIFTGLASS by Samuel R. Delaney, MY SOUL TO KEEP by Tananareve Due. |
ME
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 11:09 am: |
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Check out the sci-fi novels of Steven Barnes, which have been mentioned on this board by Thumper and others. Samuel Delaney is a guy who has been writing speculative fiction since the 60's. His most popular works are Dhalgren and Triton. Walter Mosley has done two science fiction novels. Octavia Butler has several books out , but for me her best were Kindred and Parable of the Sower. I'm sure a AA sci-fi anthology called Dark Matters has been discussed on this board also. |
Na'ith
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 11:26 pm: |
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Here are several suggestions for people interested in reading Sci-Fi or Speculative Fiction:
1) My Soul to Keep and The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
2) Lilith's Brood and Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler
3) Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes
4) Stigmata by Phyllis Perry
5) Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
I highly recommend Due's and Butler's novels. |
Msveevah
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Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 03:47 pm: |
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Check out Dawn, Imago, Adulthood Rites, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Wild Seed, Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler. |
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