@booklet {11927, title = {Gone Wolf}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {348 pp}, publisher = {Feiwell and Friends}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia set partially in 2111 in an area known as the Bible Boot, consisting of thirteen former states or parts of states of the US), that is divided into Clones (white) and Blues (black) with the Blues, some of whom are genetic matches of Clones and kept so that their organs can be harvested as needed. In this section every chapter concludes Flash Card explaining the system. The rest of the novel is set in 2022, and each chapter ends with a flash card on Black History for Kids.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781250850492}, author = {Amber McBride} } @booklet {11983, title = {The New Naturals. A Novel}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {298 pp.}, publisher = {Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill}, address = {Chapel Hill, NC}, abstract = {

The novel concerns a Black woman and her husband who, distraught at the death of her newborn daughter, create a society inside a mountain that attracts people from around the world and seems to be on the way to becoming a utopia until it fails.

}, keywords = {African American author, US author}, isbn = {978-1616208806}, author = {Gabriel Bump} } @booklet {11885, title = {To the Woman in the Pink Hat}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {84 pp.}, publisher = {Aqueduct Press}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

The protagonist is a young black woman who is an SU (Stolen Uteruses), one of many who have had their uteruses removed to be used to produced babies for infertile white women. She is being held in a prison-like institution the purports to be training Leaders.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1619762367 }, author = {LaToya Jordan} } @booklet {11747, title = {Chain-Gang All-Stars}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, publisher = {Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future where prisoners in for-profit prison fight in staged, trademarked matches where the winner gets their freedom, and the loser dies.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1328911261}, author = {Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah} } @booklet {11566, title = {"E.I."}, howpublished = {Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {95-107 with a note on the author on 108}, publisher = {Reckoning Press}, address = {Lake Orion, MI}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Earth badly damaged by climate change that is recovering through the intelligent use of technology and a form of online democracy in which the Earth gets the final say. It is told through the story of a project designed to raise a large building from under water to use as a tool to teach about the past interspersed with vignettes showing how the technology is used.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-955360-04-3 }, url = {E.I. {\textendash} Reckoning }, author = {Kola Heyward-Rotimi}, editor = {A{\"\i}cha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago} } @booklet {11653, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Family Tree: Planting for the Future{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Nature}, year = {2022}, month = {October 19, 2022}, abstract = {

In an overpopulated future, annually each family receives a box that may or may not contain a capsule that will protect one of them from the poison gas that will be released into their pod. Trees of the survivor\’s choice are planted to commemorate the others.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, issn = {1476-4687 (web) 0028-0836 (print)}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03277-4nature.com/futures}, author = {Russell Nichols} } @booklet {11585, title = {"Food for the Soul"}, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 23}, year = {2022}, month = {Summer 2022}, pages = {8-27}, abstract = {

The story is set in the ninth ward of New Orleans some years after hurricane Katrina. The Coastals eat only beneficial and nutritious food and have outlawed the use of all spices, including salt and pepper.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Elnora Gunter} } @booklet {11809, title = {"Ghost Ship"}, howpublished = {Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction}, year = {2022}, note = {

Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.

}, month = {2022}, pages = {275-294}, publisher = {Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781250833006 978-1636141053}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972) and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond]} } @booklet {11473, title = {Goliath}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {336 pp.}, publisher = {Tordotcom}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

People with the means to do so have left Earth for space colonies cannibalizing Earth\’s infrastructure for use in the colonies. The novel is told from multiple perspectives as those remaining on Earth struggle to survive and build a better life there.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1250782953}, author = {Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987)} } @booklet {11723, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Lightspeed}, volume = {no. 151}, year = {2022}, month = {December 2022}, abstract = {

The story is set in a city parts pf which are flooded but with many of the inhabitants still living there because they have no place else to go. The story takes place as the wealthy, who control the city, are beginning to push those inhabitants out so that the area can be reclaimed for the rich.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-stand-of-the-e-12th-st-pirates/}, author = {L. D. Lewis} } @booklet {11794, title = {"Mami Wataworks"}, howpublished = {Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {61-75}, publisher = {Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance. The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9781250833006}, author = {Russell Nichols}, editor = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972) and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight [pseud.]. [Olivia E. Raymond]} } @booklet {11574, title = {The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {313 pp.}, publisher = {Harper Voyager}, address = {New york}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to \“cleaning\” or having their memories removed. They originated with Mon{\'a}e\’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE\&ab_channel=JanelleMon\%C3\%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-06307-087-5 }, author = {Janelle [Robinson] Mon{\'a}e (b. 1985)} } @booklet {11647, title = {Survive the Dome}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {327 pp.}, publisher = {Sourcebooks Fire}, address = {Naperville, IL}, abstract = {

Baltimore responds to a rally against police brutality by enclosing the entire city in a dome and establishing a military-style discipline The novel focuses on the resistance.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-7282-3908-8 }, author = {Kosoko Jackson} } @booklet {11690, title = {Sweep of Stars}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {350 pp.}, publisher = {Tor/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First volume of the Astra Black trilogy. In this volume the Muungano (Togetherness in Swahili) empire has separated from Old Earth and its wars to establish a better future for their people. But Old Earth does not want to lose its power over them. There is a Glossary on pp. 345-348. See 2020 Broaddus for a story set in the same future.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-250264930}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)} } @booklet {11681, title = {The Women Could Fly. A Novel}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {283 pp.}, publisher = {Amistad/HarperCollins}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a world where women are severely restricted on the basis that any woman over 30 who is not married is a witch and witch burnings are common and state sanctioned. Unmarried women cannot get a credit card without a male cosigner. Tax credits for arranged marriages. The society is also generally anti-gay, trans, and Black.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-06-311699-3}, author = {Megan Giddings} } @booklet {11316, title = {"Blood Ties"}, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 18}, year = {2021}, month = {Spring 2021}, pages = {65-80, with a note about the author on 80. }, abstract = {

The story centers on whites evicting a black family from land that had belonged to them for generations.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Jade Wilburn (b. 1994)} } @booklet {11728, title = {Grievers}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {208 pp.}, publisher = {AK Press}, address = {Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

First volume of a trilogy in which Detroit is ravaged by a pandemic. The second volume is Maroons. Black Dawn Series $\#$3. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 267 pp. In this volume, the protagonist searches the mostly empty city for answers to the disease and for other survivors.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-849354523}, author = {adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {11208, title = {"If Memory Serves"}, howpublished = {Speculative Los Angeles}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {134-64}, publisher = {Akashic Books}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

In the story, the protagonist tries to remember the Los Angeles she grew up in, a time when the divide between rich and poor had not been as strong as had become, when she could actually visit the beach. when people were not constantly being evicted from buildings with shared bathrooms and kitchens so that a more housing for the rich could be built, and when she and others could get a regular job instead of depending on the unreliable gig economy.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781617758645 }, author = {Lynell George}, editor = {Denise Hamilton} } @booklet {11453, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Line of Demarcation{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {329-34}, publisher = {Flame Tree Publishing}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where people working in fulfillment centers are given prosthetic limbs so that they can work more efficiently.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Puerto Rican author}, isbn = {978-1-83964-480-1}, author = {Patty Nicole Johnson} } @booklet {11313, title = {The Minister Primarily}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {xxv + 464 pp.}, publisher = {Amistad 35/HarperCollins}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire in which an imaginary, impoverished African country is found to be a major source of an extremely rare mineral need by wealthy countries. Depicts the corruption of African politicians by corrupt American politicians, all of which sounds contemporary. In addition, the novel satirizes African American life. First publication of a novel written in the 1980s and lost. See also 1967 Killens.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9780063079593 }, author = {John Oliver Killens (1916-87)} } @booklet {11546, title = {"My Monticello"}, howpublished = {My Monticello. Fiction }, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {62-205}, publisher = {Henry Holt \& Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near future Virginia after a disputed election during which many were killed or injured and an unexplained collapse of the power grid. White supremacists take advantage of the situation to burn down the houses and kill black and brown people and generally terrorize the area. A group of mostly African Americans escape to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson\’s estate, including some descended from Jefferson, and work to establish a safe, functioning community.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781205807151 }, author = {Jocelyn Nicole Johnson} } @booklet {11411, title = {Noor}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {214 pp.}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0756416096 }, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {11162, title = {"Rememory"}, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 18}, year = {2021}, month = {Spring 2021}, pages = {40-63, with a note about the author on 64}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which the government responded to protestors by bombing them, and, as in Argentina, taking children and giving them to other families. The protagonist is a woman searching for her child.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Kristen Reynolds} } @booklet {11439, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Sabhu My Destination{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {348-55}, publisher = {Laksa Media Groups}, address = {Calgary, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-988140-17-9}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)}, editor = {Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law} } @booklet {11805, title = {The Terrible Fours}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {179 pp.}, publisher = {Baraka Books}, address = {Montr{\'e}al, PQ, Canada}, abstract = {

Sequel to his 1982 The Terrible Twos and 1989 The Terrible Threes. This novel continues the plot of The Terrible Threes with a televangelist the real power and the president he is blackmailing his pawn. Aliens are planning an invasion and others are struggling for power. The book ends with a set of questions to be answered in The Terrible Fives.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9781771862431}, author = {Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938)} } @booklet {10916, title = {"African Twilight"}, howpublished = {The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {236-50}, publisher = {Haverill House}, address = {Haverill, MA}, abstract = {

The story is about a scheme to reestablish slavery in the United States.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-949140-19-4}, author = {Michelle Renee Lane}, editor = {Matt Bechtel} } @booklet {11929, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Are We Ourselves?{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Augur Magazine}, volume = {3.2}, year = {2020}, note = {

An excerpt is available at https://www.augurmag.com/are-we-ourselves/ Rpt. in Dark Dispatch, no. 3 (Winter 2022) https://darkdispatch.com/news-features/onsite-issues/article-are-we-ourselves-by-michelle-mellon/. The excerpt was reprinted in The Year\’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Np: Caezik SF \& Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents/Jembefola Press, 2023), 185-187.

}, month = {Fall 2020}, abstract = {

The excerpt is a brief vignette in which the 2119 United States Reparation Act using a complex formula paid reparations to proven descendants of slaves but included a clause \“requiring unwavering loyalty to the principles and administrative actions deemed necessary by the government\” (186) that was later used to re-enslave African Americans. The full text then shifts to the history that led to this result and life under the new regime.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://darkdispatch.com/news-features/onsite-issues/article-are-we-ourselves-by-michelle-mellon/}, author = {Michelle Mellon (b. 1971)} } @booklet {10910, title = {"Blue \& Red"}, howpublished = {The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {151-61}, publisher = {Haverill House}, address = {Haverill, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which President Trump\’s administration has dropped nuclear weapons on North Korea, which has retaliated with biological and chemical weapons.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-949140-19-4}, author = {Wrath James White (b. 1970)}, editor = {Matt Bechtel} } @booklet {11142, title = {"Carnival"}, howpublished = {Hadithi \& The State of Black Speculative Fiction}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {72-111}, publisher = {Academia Lunare/Luna Press}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a high-tech future in which everyone lives inside enclosed communities so that the natural world can regenerate, but it is focused on a celebrated DJ who is preparing a special show for Carnival.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {97819313387334}, author = {Milton [John] Davis} } @booklet {11307, title = {"City of Refuge"}, howpublished = {Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {163-81, with a note on the author on 162}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Indianapolis on \“Original Earth,\” or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it. Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can\’t. The viewpoint character is an African American ex-convict struggling to survive.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, isbn = {9781789095012}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)}, editor = {Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [pseud.]} } @booklet {10529, title = {"The Countdown"}, howpublished = {The New York Times Sunday Review }, year = {2020}, month = {January 5, 2020}, pages = {4-5}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future where, in order to control the population and create a better society, the moment of everyone\’s death is predetermined.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Diallo, Amadou} } @booklet {11079, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Currant Dumas{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn{\textquoteright}t Die}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {87-109}, publisher = {Neon Hemlock Press}, address = {[Washington, DC]}, abstract = {

The story is set on a circus train in a climate change dystopia following a great storm that obliterated the eastern seaboard, including the U.S. capital. Eleven years later there is no government, no financial system, so no currency, and everyone is simply struggling to survive.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-952086-10-6 }, author = {L. D. Lewis}, editor = {Dave Ring} } @booklet {10792, title = {e-Pocalypse: The Digital Dystopia Is Coming}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, publisher = {Wordwooze Publishing}, address = {Middletown, DE}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which popular technology such as glasses are engineered to change behavior and comes to control most of the population.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9798640980745}, author = {Steve Bellinger} } @booklet {10732, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Fourth and Most Important{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Us in Flux}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series. Ed. Ellen Meeropol. Assistant eds. Carina Bissett and Celia Jeffries. Series Ed. Julie C. Day ([Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press]/Essential Dreams Press, 2022), 159-165.

}, month = {2020}, publisher = {Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University}, address = {Tempe, AZ}, abstract = {

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia that serves the interests of the ultra-rich.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-955360-05-0 }, url = {https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/fourth-and-most-important-by-nisi-shawl/}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {11217, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Glass Houses. Letters: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {46-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don\’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US Virgin Islands author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Cadwell Turnbull}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11124, title = {{\textquotedblleft}How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 525-42, with a note about the author on 525; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner\  Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 78-92.

}, month = {August 29, 2020}, abstract = {

The story is set in the near future in which one town decides to pay its Black residents for the history of racism. .

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, url = {How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary, a new short story by Tochi Onyebuchi. (slate.com)}, author = {Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987)}, editor = {Charlton McIlwain (b. 1971)} } @booklet {10991, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Interstate Africana{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 16}, year = {2020}, month = {Autumn 2016}, pages = {8-16}, abstract = {

The story depicts a \“highway\” through the universe travelled by African souls.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {W. C. Dunlap} } @booklet {10880, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Last Testament{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 15}, year = {2020}, month = {Summer 2020}, pages = {22-38}, abstract = {

Set in the future, the story is about the violence against young African American by the Chicago police.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Aurelius Raines II} } @booklet {11334, title = {"The Mirages"}, howpublished = {Reconstruction. Stories}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {217-35}, publisher = {Small Beer Press}, address = {Easthampton, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in Mexico in a climate change future where the cities have gone underground but still reflect the economic divisions of the country and people are still trying to move North, although now to Nunavut in northern Canada. The African American female author was born, raised, and educated in the United States through her BA in East Asian languages cultures at Columbia University. She now lives in Mexico where she received a\ master\’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de M{\'e}xico.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Mexican author}, isbn = {9781618731777}, author = {Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982)} } @booklet {11233, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {257-71}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Violet Allen}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {10934, title = {Riot Baby}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {176 pp.}, publisher = {Tom Doherty Associates/Tor.com}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in contemporary American and reflects the dystopia it is today for young African Americans and as it gets worse in the future as seen through the eyes of a brother and sister. Elements of fantasy.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9781250214751}, author = {Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987)} } @booklet {11946, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Shopping Day{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {How We Live Now (Serial Box anthology)}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 271-277.

}, month = {2020}, abstract = {

A plague dystopia in which everyone has to be locked down at 6:00 PM, and being out during the day is dangerous. The story focuses on children waiting for their mother to return from a shopping trip.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://www.realm.fm/serials/shopping-day}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)} } @booklet {10774, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Transition of OSOOSI{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 13}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 433-63, with a note about the author on 433.

}, month = {Winter 2020}, pages = {42-75}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in the United States of True Americans, which is a totalitarian regime based on apartheid, with Citizen Americans having fewer rights than the pets of True Americans, who are white. The story is about the beginning of a rebellion led by hackers.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Ozzie M. Gartrell} } @booklet {10286, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Attachment Disorder{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {111-31}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Removal Order,\” 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” and 2019 Due, \“One Day Only.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10290, title = {"Calendar Girls{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {191-204}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia\ in which contraception is illegal.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Justina Ireland (b. 1985)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10464, title = {The Deep}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {163 pp}, publisher = {Saga Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The short novel describes the underwater eutopian society that develop when pregnant women were thrown or jumped overboard from slave ships in the middle passage. An \“Afterword\” by Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes (157-63) explains the evolution of the work from its origins in the techno-electro duo Drexciya and their collaborators, followed by the song \“The Deep\” by the band clipping. (Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes), and then the written work.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author, Transgender author, US author}, author = {Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) and Daveed Diggs (b. 1982) and William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes} } @booklet {10446, title = {"Dumb House"}, howpublished = {New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {227-52}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Andrea Hairston (b. 1952)}, editor = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {11018, title = {Emergency Skin}, volume = {No 3 in the Forward Collection}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor\’s note on 343;\ and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Amazon Original Stories}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)}, editor = {Blake Crouch (b. 1978)} } @booklet {11452, title = {"e-race"}, howpublished = {Terraform}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 278-82.

}, month = {September 5, 2019}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which racial differences are being eliminated through surgery and focuses on one man who resists.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-83964-480-1}, url = {https://www.vice.com/en/article/ne8zwb/e-race}, author = {Russell Nichols} } @booklet {10312, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, note = {

\ Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {298-306}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which the 99\% is trying to kill off most of the 99\%, who are fighting back.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9780525508809 9781789095012}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10712, title = {"The Good Plan"}, howpublished = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s 58. 2040 A.D. }, volume = {58}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {76-87}, publisher = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s Quarterly Concern}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set \“somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere\” but concerns Africa. The Good People have the Good Plan to wall themselves off from the rest of the world to protect themselves from refugees, whose memories they take. The protagonist, who is being escorted in chains back to Africa, describes what little he can remember of the Crisis that the Good People blame on everyone but themselves.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Mikael Awake} } @booklet {10501, title = {King Harvest (Will Surely Come){\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {If This Goes On}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {173-79, with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 179}, publisher = {Parvus Press}, address = {Yardley, PA}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which the U.S. Heartland has walled itself off from the rest of the country and expelled all those who don\’t fit, such as everyone who is not white. Religious fundamentalism has evolved into a politico-religious system with a hereditary monarch who must be ritually killed at regular intervals.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963)} } @booklet {10551, title = {"Luna 6000"}, howpublished = {Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {91-107}, publisher = {BLF Press}, address = {Clayton, NC}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Stephanie Andrea Allen}, editor = {Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle} } @booklet {11427, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Monsters Come Howling in Their Season{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Verge Better Worlds}, year = {2019}, month = {January 23, 2019}, abstract = {

The story is set on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the aftermath of a Category 5 hurricane (Wind speed of 137 knots; 254 km/h; 158 mph). In response to previous devastating storms, St. Thomas has become part of the world cooperative movement with \“grassroots consensus politics, direct democracy, and cooperative institutions that make up any good solidarity economy\” plus housing, consumer, and producer cooperatives. And it has established a strong AI, known as Common, as a public resource.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US Virgin Islands author}, url = {An AI combats hurricane season in {\textquotedblleft}Monsters Come Howling in Their Season{\textquotedblright} - The Verge}, author = {Cadwell Turnbull} } @booklet {11944, title = {{\textquotedblleft}One Day Only{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Wastelands: The New Apocalypse}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {157-175}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, \“Removal Order,\” 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9871785658952}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10736, title = {Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel}, year = {2019}, note = {

An excerpt was published in Apex Magazine, no. 120 (May 2019). EJournal.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {311 pp}, publisher = {Apex Book Co.}, address = {Lexington, KY}, abstract = {

The novel is\ set in a steampunk alternative future America with most of its current problems, but, in the novel. they are faced and combatted. Stories in the \“Pimp My Airship Universe\” include \“Pimp My Airship.\” Apex Magazine, no. 2 (July 2009) https://www.apex-magazine.com/pimp-my-airship/; \“The Problem of Trystan.\” Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe (New York: DAW Books, 2011), 46-63; \“Steppin\’ Razor.\” Asimov\’s Science Fiction 38.2 (457) (February 2014): 82-104; rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 87 (August 2017); \“I Used to Love H.E.R.\ (A/K/A/ Help Engineer and Rebuild My Robot Girlfriend Roommate.\” Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects. Ed. John Joseph Adams. Np: John Joseph Adams, 2014.\ EBook; \“(120 Degrees of) Know the Ledge.\” Not Our Kind. Ed. Nayad Monroe\ (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2015), 264-86 [Incorrect in the Table of Contents]; Buffalo Soldier. New York: Tor.com, 2017; and \“All God\&$\#$39;s Chillun Got Wings.\” Illus. Jenna Fowler Steampunk Universe. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 15-33.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, US author}, isbn = {9781937009762}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)} } @booklet {10769, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Rat King of Spanish Harlem{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 9}, year = {2019}, month = {Winter 2019}, pages = {69-91}, abstract = {

The dystopia brought about by a plague and the way people respond as seen by a woman who is not infected.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nicky Drayden} } @booklet {11176, title = {The Record Keeper}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {457 pp.}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a post-World War III future in which the truce requires that all laws be obeyed completely, but the female protagonist discovers that the laws are being used against her people. First of volume of a series. The second volume is The Seed of Cain: Book Two of The Record Keeper Series. London: Titan Books, 2020.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781789091151}, author = {Agnes Gomillion} } @booklet {11449, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Space Traitors{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Buckman Journal}, volume = {no. 3}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 324-28.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {9-15}, abstract = {

The story is headed by the statement \“In conversation with Derrick Bell\’s short story \‘Space Traders\’\” (See Bell 1992). In this story, the aliens offer to improve the lives of all the \“scarred people\” of Earth.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-83964-480-1}, author = {Walidah Imarisha} } @booklet {11429, title = {"St. JuJu"}, howpublished = {The Verge Better Worlds}, year = {2019}, month = {January 28, 2019}, abstract = {

Set in a far-distant future, the story explicitly rejects the idea of a perfect society and explores different notions of what makes a life good.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Transgender author}, url = {A trash garden is paradise and prison in Rivers Solomon{\textquoteright}s story {\textquotedblleft}St. Juju{\textquotedblright} - The Verge}, author = {Rivers Solomon (b. 1989)} } @booklet {10305, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {205-25}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Violet Allen}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {11425, title = {"A Theory of Flight{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Verge Better Worlds}, year = {2019}, month = {January 14, 2019}, abstract = {

The story is set in a poor neighborhood in a lethally polluted future where Mars and Europa have been settled and Europa welcomes everyone who arrives but only the very rich can afford the fare.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {An open-source rocket could reshape society in {\textquotedblleft}A Theory of Flight{\textquotedblright} - The Verge}, author = {Justina Ireland (b. 1985)} } @booklet {11329, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Therapies for World{\textquoteright}s End{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {135-42}, publisher = {BLF Press}, address = {Clayton, NC}, abstract = {

The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia that has divided the rich and poor even more, with the rich closing themselves off and the poor, known as Dusties left to try to survive.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-578-50213-7}, author = {Stefani Cox}, editor = {Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle} } @booklet {10978, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Thirteen Year Long Song{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896

}, month = {2019}, pages = {182-97}, publisher = {Apex Publications}, address = {Lexington, KY}, abstract = {

The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781937009786}, author = {Sheree Ren{\'e}e Thomas (b. 1972)}, editor = {Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner} } @booklet {10637, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Voice Lessons: Wishes to the Outside{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Articulation: Short Plays to Nourish the Mind \& Soul}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {102-17}, publisher = {Aqueduct Press}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

In the play \“two celestial beings\” living in a \“Caribbean utopia somewhere between heaven and earth\” (103) are tasked with visiting Africans of the diaspora to learn lessons from them and pass them on to others. The becomes slaves, children in a school with little equipment, and so forth.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Davidson, Cesi [Cecelia]} } @booklet {9979, title = {We Cast a Shadow. A Novel}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian set in a near future, racist United States where it is possible to have one\’s skin colored changed to white. The novel focuses on a father\’s struggle to decide what is best for his son.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Maurice Carlos Ruffin} } @booklet {10001, title = {"Blackst*r"}, howpublished = {All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {79-87}, publisher = {A Blue Wave World}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A positive future story in comic form that gives a tour of the future music scene.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Chris Visions}, editor = {Matt Miner and Eric Palicki and Tyler Chin-Tanner} } @booklet {10512, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Burned-Over Territory{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andr{\'e}s Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 173-89.\ 

}, month = {October 27, 2018}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a society with a guaranteed income undermined by factionalism and bureaucracy.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US author}, url = {https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/burned-over-territory-universal-basic-income-story.html}, author = {Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978)}, editor = {Sebastian Johnson} } @booklet {10165, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Elevator Dancer{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {How Long {\textquoteleft}Til Black Future Month}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {34-37}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Surveillance dystopia.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10117, title = {"The Era"}, howpublished = {Friday Black}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {29-51}, publisher = {Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An odd dystopia in which everyone is expected to tell the truth as they see it.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah} } @booklet {10405, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Fyrewall{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {40-52}, publisher = {World Weaver Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

The story is set in a high-tech future Los Angeles that is inside a dome that protects it from the recurrent wildfires and functions as a direct democracy with everyone able to contribute to the decision-making process.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Stefani Cox}, editor = {Sarena Ulibarri} } @booklet {10526, title = {LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration}, year = {2018}, note = {

Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019

}, month = {2018-19}, publisher = {Dark Horse Comics}, address = {Milwaukie, OR}, abstract = {

Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {9777, title = {M Archive: After the End of the World}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Duke University Press}, address = {Durham, NC}, abstract = {

A complex work that explores Black life after an undescribed catastrophe through stories and poems that explore Black feminism and its ramifications with both positive and negative outcomes. The second volume of a planned tryptic following the non-utopian Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. See also her 2015 \“Evidence.\”\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Alexis Pauline Gumbs} } @booklet {9500, title = {Mankind}, year = {2018}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a world without women. See The New York Times \“Arts \& Leisure\” (December 24, 2017): 4-5 for an interview with the author/director, and Jesse Green, \“In the Future, Men Still Ruin Everything.\” The New York Times (January 9, 2018): C2 for a review of the play.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Robert O{\textquoteright}Hara} } @booklet {10124, title = {"Mother of Invention"}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt., without the response,\ in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andr{\'e}s Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.

}, month = {February 21, 2018}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, US author}, url = {https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/mother-of-invention-a-new-short-story-by-nnedi-okorafor.html. }, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)}, editor = {Stacey Higgenbotham} } @booklet {9878, title = {"New Action"}, howpublished = {e-flux}, volume = {no. 93}, year = {2018}, month = {September 2018}, abstract = {

The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {11887, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Ones Who Stay and Fight{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {How Long {\textquoteleft}Til Black Future Month}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/

}, month = {2018}, pages = {1-13}, publisher = {Orbit}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The author calls the story \“a pastiche and response\” to Le Guin\’s \“The Ones Who Walk from Amelas\” (1973) (xi), with some references to Le Guin\’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and the story reflects its title.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10765, title = {"Pedaling"}, howpublished = {Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 8}, year = {2018}, month = {Autumn 2018}, pages = {29-44}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which the U.S. government has collapse, and violence, particularly racial violence is common and focuses on a group of mixed-race teenagers trying to find a place to live.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tuere T. S. Ganges} } @booklet {9954, title = {{\textquotedblleft}This Ain{\textquoteright}t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {24-36}, publisher = {Microcosm Publishing}, address = {Portland, OR}, abstract = {

Under Trump\’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tuere T. S. Ganges}, editor = {Elly Blue} } @booklet {10980, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteright}Clippers{\textquoteright}: Measuring the slow but steady whitening of public life{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project}, year = {2017}, month = {February 27, 2017}, abstract = {

The story is about a man trying to pass as white after the Trump administration had outlawed voting by blacks.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/kashana-cauleys-clippers-in-slates-trump-story-project.html}, author = {Kashana Cauley}, editor = {Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10773, title = {Contact High}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {26 pp.}, publisher = {F.I.M.C (Forget It, Make Comics)}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

In the future human contact has become a drug and outlawed with everyone required to wear a protective suit or be arrested and rehabilitated. Queer and interracial themes.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US author}, author = {Joseph Eckert and James F. Wright} } @booklet {9966, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Hermit of Houston{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = {133.3/4 (733)}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in\ The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85.\ 

}, month = {September/October 2017}, pages = {105-33}, abstract = {

A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man\’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, \“mixed up the genders,\” although the story does not include any of the last.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-328-83456-0 978-1-78108-573-8 978-1-60701-5260}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {10080, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mozart of the Kalahari{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Center for Science and Imagination Arizona State University}, address = {Tempe, AZ}, abstract = {

The story is set in an environmentally devasted future where the rich live off planet and the poor struggle to survive

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)}, editor = {Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich and Juliet Ulman} } @booklet {9464, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Reformatory{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Boston Review}, volume = {Special issue on Global Dystopias }, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {93-108}, abstract = {

The dystopia of life for African-Americans in the South at an unspecified date.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Junot D{\'\i}az} } @booklet {10972, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Slippernet{\textquoteright}: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. \© 2018\ 

}, month = {February 22, 2017}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1732638808}, url = {http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fiction/2017/02/nisi_shawl_s_slippernet_in_slate_s_trump_story_project.html}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10755, title = {"Toward the Sun"}, howpublished = {Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 3}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {22-41}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia in which the rich shelter in cities, and the poor, who work outside are forced to wear implants that control their bodies and do what they can to survive.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Sydnee Thompson} } @booklet {9480, title = {An Unkindness of Ghosts}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {Akashic Books}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia on a multi-generation star ship organized like a slave ship with the dark-skinned on the lower decks with little support.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Transgender author}, author = {Rivers Solomon (b. 1989)} } @booklet {10750, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Vade Retro Santana{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 2}, year = {2017}, month = {Spring 2017}, pages = {8-22}, abstract = {

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)} } @booklet {10809, title = {{\textquotedblleft}At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia){\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Mothership Zeta}, volume = {no. 5}, year = {2016}, month = {October 2016}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)} } @booklet {8895, title = {Everfair}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history with a flawed utopia, multiracial country established by a combination of British Fabian socialists and African American missionaries within The Congo at its worst in the nineteenth century. Stories set in Everfair are \“The Colors of Money.\” Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Ed. Phoebe Wagner and Bront{\"e} Christopher Wieland (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2017), 198-217; \“Sun River.\” Illus.\ Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt. Ed. Matthew Bright ([UK]: Twopenny Books, 2017), 169-87; and \“Promised.\” Steampunk World. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 53-75.\ A related story is \“Vulcanization.\” Nightmare, no. 40 (January 2016). http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/vulcanization/ Rpt.\ as \“Vulcanization From Nightmare Magazine.\” In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017. Ed. Charles Yu and John Joseph Adams (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 128-40.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)} } @booklet {10113, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Finkelstein 5{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Friday Black}, year = {2016}, note = {

Originally published in a slightly different form in Printer\’s Row (2016), which appears to be no longer available online

}, month = {2016/2018}, pages = {1-26}, publisher = {Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which an all-white jury acquits a man who had behead five black children.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah} } @booklet {9352, title = {Folding the Red into the Black or Developing a Viable UNtopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {127 pp.}, publisher = {OR Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Nonfiction presentation of a better society. The title refers to the melding of capitalism and socialism that is at the heart of the work. Change is basic to human society. Respect for all ideas and ideals is fundamental (59). Happiness before profit (65). Equality among all people, which he equates with freedom (65). There must be a fundamental right to those things that a twenty-first century person needs to survive, including clean water, healthy food, a safe housing, free access to \“education though six years of college or technical school,\” and medical care\ (89-90).\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952)} } @booklet {10975, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Let Your Light Shine Before Men{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Obsidian}, volume = {42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination \& The Arts}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {19-34}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where climate change led to the abandonment of New Orleans while saving white areas of the country.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, Queer author, Scottish author}, issn = {0888-4412}, author = {Christopher Caldwell} } @booklet {10748, title = {"Rusties"}, howpublished = {Clarkesworld}, volume = {no. 121}, year = {2016}, month = {October 2016}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story is set in an African future where robot traffic police with ever-more-enhanced AI capabilities ended the traffic chaos in cities but also could access all personal data from cell phones.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Kenyan author}, url = {http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor-kahiu_10_16/}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) and Wanuri Kahui (b. 1980)} } @booklet {10979, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Still Life with Hammers, a Broom \& A Brick Stacker{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Obsidian}, volume = { 42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination \& The Arts}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {67-78}, abstract = {

A dystopia depicting the extreme poverty that exists for blacks and suggesting that whites can leave the deadly pollution of Earth for a better life in space.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, issn = {0888-4412 }, author = {Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987)} } @booklet {10268, title = {The Underground Railroad. A Novel}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Most of the novel is concerned with the horrors of slavery and attempts by slaves to escape including by, in the novel, a literal underground railroad. The novel also includes a section, \“Indiana\” (237-67) set in part on Valentine Farm, an intentional community that is a safe space for escaping slaves.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Colson Whitehead (b. 1969)} } @booklet {9148, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Wilson{\textquoteright}s Singularity{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! }, volume = {Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 }, year = {2016}, month = {June 2016}, pages = {68-77 with an interview with the author by Tara Sim (323-26).}, abstract = {

When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Terence Taylor}, editor = {Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980)} } @booklet {10444, title = {Binti}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First volume of a trilogy in which a young girl of a small African tribe who has exceptional mathematical skills and the ability to bring people together is admitted to the most prestigious university in the universe. In this volume, she helps to end a long-standing war between humans and medusae. See also Binti: Home. New York: Tor.com, 2016 in which Binti returns home accompanied by a medusa with the novel focusing on Binti\’s troubled relations with her family and the other tribes in the area, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. The third volume of the trilogy, Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor.com, 2018. in which war breaks out on Earth because one tribe tries, unsuccessfully to kill the medusa.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {8213, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Black Angel{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {43-55}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia on Harlem in the near future where both official and unofficial violence is endemic.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Walidah Imarisha}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8787, title = {The Book of Phoenix}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young woman in the U.S. who had been genetically modified and raised with other genetically modified children escapes from her keepers and travels to Africa and her actions transform both Africa and the U.S.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {8202, title = {"Carriers"}, howpublished = {The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {139-51}, publisher = {Editors}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,\” 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781497484405}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} } @booklet {8215, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {301-04}, publisher = {Rosarium Publishing}, address = {Greenbelt, MD}, abstract = {

Dystopia of genetic manipulation.\ Includes a character from 2011 Johnson, R/evolution.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tenea D. Johnson}, editor = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) and Bill Campbell (b. 1970)} } @booklet {8209, title = {"Evidence"}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {33-41}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

The story looks back from a future eutopia to the dystopian past of the twenty-first century, known as the period \“Before Silence Broke,\” with the period \“Breaking the Silence\” seen as the beginning of the changes that brought about the eutopia. The eutopia which has eliminated capitalism, money, and private property is an open society where everyone is encouraged to develop in their own unique way with a twelve-year-old from the future writing to the author describing a little of the life.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-84935-209-3}, author = {Alexis Pauline Gumbs}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8224, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {147-52}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Description of a day in the life of a teenage mother in a society that provides support.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Gloria Malone}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {8230, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Free Girl Who Is Everything"}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {327-29}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Feminist utopia in which all women are free and safe.

}, keywords = {African American author, Hawaiian author, Transgender author}, author = {Janet Mock (b. 1984)}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {8226, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Homing Instinct{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {239-47}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which climate change moves the U.S. government to tell people to move to where they want to live permanently with travel no longer permitted. The story focuses on a woman\’s decision on how to respond.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Dani McClain}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8208, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {222-29}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

In answers to questions about her utopia, the author describes a world where transgender people are considered normal.

}, keywords = {African American author, Transgender author}, author = {Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (b. 1940)}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {8216, title = {"Justice"}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {80-90}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia based on intense community interaction, its disruption by a woman from Earth who commits a murder, and the way the community responds.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Mariame Kaba}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {8237, title = {"Manhunters"}, howpublished = {Octavia{\textquoteright}s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {197-214}, publisher = {AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

The story begins with a woman\’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947)}, editor = {Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (b. 1978)} } @booklet {8206, title = {Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {97-99}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Giorgis, Hannah}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {9259, title = {The Sellout}, year = {2015}, note = {

U. K. ed. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016.\ 

}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Farrar, Straus and Giroux}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire on U.S. race relations in which an African-American man tries to re-introduce slavery and segregation to his local school in a poor small town in southern California. His goal is to improve education and provide for the homeless. Much of the novel is about the case as it is argued before the Supreme Court. African-American author.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Paul Beatty (b. 1962)} } @booklet {10789, title = {{\textquotedblleft}After the Water: Show Me the Well{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {WBEZ 91.5 Radio{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}After Water{\textquotedblright} series}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {Radio}, abstract = {

The story is set in Detroit, supposedly one hundred years in the future but sounding contemporary, with water cut off from the African American community and bureaucracy going out of its way to make it difficult to get reconnected.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Latina author}, url = { https://player.fm/series/after-water/afterwater-fiction-show-me-the-well}, author = {Kristiana Rae Col{\'o}n (b. 1986)} } @booklet {8154, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Childfinder{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Unexpected Stories}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020), 27-92, with an \“Afterword\” by Butler on 93, with a \“Foreword: Necessary Stories\” by Nisi Shawl (7-10) and an \“Afterword by Merrilee Heifetz (95-97) (PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 577-587, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758-759), and Notes (771).

}, month = {2014}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Open Road}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story has a brief introductory statement that \“Psi could have put the human race on the road to utopia,\” but the dystopian story is about racial prejudice among the psi.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-59808-983-1 }, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {11942, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Herd Immunity{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {5-19}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Removal Order,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781497484375}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {8102, title = {Lagoon}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Hodder \& Stoughton}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10784, title = {"Poison Fish"}, howpublished = {WBEZ 91.5 Radio{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}After Water{\textquotedblright} series}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {Radio}, publisher = { WBEZ 91.5 Radio}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {https://soundcloud.com/afterwater/after-water-ep-1-poison-fish}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {11941, title = {"Removal Order"}, howpublished = {The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {85-98}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781495471179}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10163, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Valedictorian"}, howpublished = {Lightspeed Magazine}, volume = {no. 55}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 150-69.\ 

}, month = {December 2014}, abstract = {

The story takes place after a very long war in which humans have been defeated by other humans with embedded AI. The humans without AI have degenerated, despise intelligence, and see the only role from girls is to have babies. The story focuses on a girl who doesn\’t fit in.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/valedictorian/}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10921, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Benjamin{\textquoteright}s Freedom Magic{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Steamfunk! }, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {249-90}, publisher = {MV media, LLC}, address = {Fayetteville, GA}, abstract = {

The story is set in the Confederacy that is at peace with the United States, but is concerned with the independent country of Delany, probably Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), established by abolitionists. It is primarily concerned with weaponry being developed for the next war.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-9800842-5-2}, author = {Ronald T. Jones}, editor = {Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade} } @booklet {9257, title = {Orleans}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Young adult post-catastrophe (hurricanes followed by disease).\ The entire Mississippi Delta region is walled off and inhabitants assumed to be dead. The young woman protagonist decides to take a baby, whose mother has died in childbirth, across the wall to give it a better life. African American female author.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Sherri L. Smith (b. 1971)} } @booklet {8316, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Othello Pop{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {210-11}, publisher = {Rosarium}, address = {College Park, MD}, abstract = {

Brief vignette set in a racist dystopia in which it is illegal to educate anyone not white,\ and \“yellow\” girls are supposed to be killed at birth. Some people resist.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Andaiye Reeves}, editor = {Bill Campbell (b. 1970) and Edward Austin Hall} } @booklet {11609, title = {Ryla 2212}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {189}, publisher = {YSolar}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

The novel begins on a planet called Hope, which \“was built on the principle of universal love and cooperation\” (8), but conflict has emerged, and the young woman protagonist is on a quest to find answers and right wrongs. Hope is high tech, based on its own inventors, who developed flying cars, \“a host of eco-friendly power sources,\” \“a lifestyle and herbs that prevented aging, and abolished disease\” (8). Hope had \“a system without currency, and education program that reinvigorated learning, punishment without prisons, and a score of never-before seen shifts in humanity\” (8). There are two sequels. Ryla 2213. Vol. 2. Chicago, IL: YSolstar, 2015 129 pp. continues the adventures of Rayla, now in the waters under the Martian surface. \ Eartha 2198. Chicago, IL: Uraeus88, 2019 103 pp. is a prequel.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1499340693 }, author = {Ytasha L. Womack} } @booklet {10523, title = {The Summer Prince}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Arthur A. Levine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The young adult novel is set in a post-nuclear war future in an arcology in Brazil that is ruled by women who, over the centuries, have become a rather hidebound ruling class. The arcology has the poor at the bottom and the rulers at the top.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10917, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Switch (Excerpt from the Switch II: Clockwork){\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Steamfunk! }, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {231-48}, publisher = {MV media, LLC}, address = {Fayetteville, GA}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future of white privilege and supremacy.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-9800842-5-2}, author = {Valjeanne Jeffers (b. 1967)}, editor = {Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade} } @booklet {10912, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Tough Night in Tommyville{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Steamfunk!}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {40-56}, publisher = {MV media, LLC}, address = {Fayetteville, GA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a small town in a future United States that has disintegrated but is reforming. The town sits between factions and the story has all the flavor of the lawless, very violent Old West.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-9800842-5-2}, author = {Melvin Carter}, editor = {Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade} } @booklet {9118, title = {"Otherwise"}, howpublished = {Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378.\ 

}, month = {2012}, pages = {90-119}, publisher = {Robinson/RP Teens}, address = {London/Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955)}, editor = {Paula Guran} } @booklet {6550, title = {"Reservation 2020"}, howpublished = {Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {388-401 with the author{\textquoteright}s "About {\textquoteright}Reservation 2020{\textquoteright}" (402-03).}, publisher = {William Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian projection of the U.S. inner cities that are now walled compounds.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Bayo Ojikutu (b. 1971)}, editor = {Sam Weller and Mort Castle} } @booklet {9967, title = {Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders}, year = {2012}, note = {

Parts were previously published as \“In the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.\” Black Clock 7. Ed. Steve Erickson\ (Spring/Summer 2007): 116-34; and in Coilhouse A Love Letter to Alternative Culture $\#$01 (2007): 12-17; and as \“Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.\” The Unbearables\’ Big Book of Sex. Ed. Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Jim Feast, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and Shalom Neuman (Williamsburg, NY: Autonomodia /Unbearable Books, 2011), 221-41.\ 

}, month = {2012}, pages = {804 pp.}, publisher = {Magnus Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel follows two men through their lives from about 2007 to 2077, and throughout it reflects on the nature of utopia from the perspective of black, gay men and refers to a black gay utopian community that one of the men had belonged to. The novel problematizes utopia, as do other works of Delany.\ See Timothy M. Griffiths, \“Queer Black Communities: Touching the Utopian Frame in Delany\’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.\” African American Review 48.3 (Fall 2015): 305-17.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {8406, title = {R/evolution. A Mosaic Novel, Book One}, year = {2011}, note = {

One chapter, \“The Taken,\” was first published Whispers in the Night. Ed. Brandon Massey (New York: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Co., 2007), 215-226. Two of the stories, \“How the Carters Got Their Name\” and \“Live Forevers\” are rpt. in her Broken Fevers. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021 on 67-71 and 98-111.

}, month = {2011}, publisher = {counterpoise}, address = {St. Petersburg, FL}, abstract = {

Genetic engineering dystopia of racial and class conflict in which the privileged have access to genetic enhancements and the poor are starving. One of the enhanced offers the enhancements to the others, and the stories relate to the revolution brought about by changes in the way humans evolve. No evidence of further volumes. See also 2011 Johnson, Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-06155553729 }, author = {Tenea D. Johnson} } @booklet {8463, title = {Smoketown}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, publisher = {Blind Eye Books}, address = {Bellingham, WA}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia with fantasy elements.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tenea D. Johnson} } @booklet {11688, title = {Zone One. A Novel}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {259 pp.}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) and Zombie dystopia in which New York City is divided into Zones in an attempt to control its spread.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-385-52807-8}, author = {Colson Whitehead (b. 1969)} } @booklet {9561, title = {Event Factory}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, pages = {126 pp}, publisher = {Dorothy, A Publishing Project}, address = {Urbana, IL}, abstract = {

Odd dystopia set in Ravicka, a place that appears to be disappearing, people are leaving, and maps are all wrong. Sequels include The Ravickians. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2011 where roads are stories and buildings reflect the psychological state of those living there; Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2013 which is a book within the book about Ravicka; and Houses of Ravicka. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2017 focuses on a man/woman, a bureaucrat trying to deal with disappearing houses.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Renee Gladman (b. 1971)} } @booklet {6317, title = {"A Stone Cast into Stillness"}, howpublished = {Dark Futures}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, pages = {191-98}, publisher = {Dark Quest Books}, address = {Howell, NJ}, abstract = {

Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)}, editor = {Jason Sizemore} } @booklet {6381, title = {Who Fears Death}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {DAW}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl\ who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change.\ A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as \“The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].\” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10370, title = {{\textquotedblleft}In Unison{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Sinister Wisdom}, volume = {no. 72}, year = {2008}, month = {Winter 2007-2008}, pages = {113-19}, abstract = {

Lesbian eutopia with an emphasis on community. Acceptance of difference. A lesbian language has developed, but it is not described. Satisfying work in good conditions. Many work cooperatives. Lots of festivals. Men are castrated.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nicole M.} } @booklet {10800, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Spider the Artist{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Seeds of Change}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/

}, month = {2008}, pages = {193-215}, publisher = {Prime Books}, address = {[Holicong, PA]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9780809573103}, url = {https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {5962, title = {2236 A Novel}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {AMM Publishing}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which race relations have degenerated and African Americans fight back against their systematic mistreatment. The work originated as a one-act play entitled The Nigger Killer\ that the author wrote in the 1970s.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Milton McGriff} } @booklet {5975, title = {The Shadow Speaker}, year = {2007}, note = {

A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.

}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Jump at the Sun/Hyperion}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician\’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician\’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} } @booklet {11394, title = {"The Taken+}, howpublished = {Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III}, year = {2007}, note = {

\ Rpt. in her Broken Fevers (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021), 33-46.

}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Dafina/Kensington Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is told by a U.S. Senator\’s adult daughter who, along with the adult children of other prominent politicians, has been captured by a radical Black movement, the New Dawn, and incarcerates in the hold of a ship designed to replicate the Middle Passage slave ships from Africa to the United States.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0758217417 978-1732638853 }, author = {Tenea D. Johnson}, editor = {Brandon Massey} } @booklet {6022, title = {Valor Tale}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Xlibris}, address = {[Bloomington, IN]}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which a democratically elected government fails to respond to developing chaos and a war develops that lasts fifteen years. A new government is established that becomes corrupt, and this brings about a civil war that lasts eight years. Martial law follows and is opposed by a small group of freedom fighters, the Aurora Blade. The novel then follows eight main characters who are depicted and described at the beginning plus other characters and a Narrator as they struggle to restore freedom.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {David Earl Williams III (b. 1984)} } @booklet {5797, title = {"Homecoming At the Borderlands Cafe"}, howpublished = {Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {107-15}, publisher = {Spyre}, address = {Radford, VA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the U.S. has divided into two countries, the liberal East and the conservative Christian West. Both are presented as intolerant of difference.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Carole McDonnell}, editor = {Edward J. McFadden III and E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970)} } @booklet {10154, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cloud Dragon Skies{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Strange Horizons}, year = {2005}, note = {

Rpt. in her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 113-26

}, month = {April 1, 2005}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which Earth\’s environment is badly damaged and then destroyed through an experiment by those who had left Earth for life in space.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/cloud-dragon-skies/}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {5700, title = {Soul City. A Novel}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Humorous, satirical eutopia of a vibrant city that lives all the fables of the swinging African American life.\ Additional Soul City stories that can be found in his The Portable Promised Land. Stories. New York: Little, Brown, 2002\ include\ \“The Steviewondermobile\” (3-8), \“A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love\” (9-24); originally published illus. in Zoetrope All-Story 3.4 (Winter 1999): 40-46. http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story\&story_id=57\&part=all; \“The Breakup Ceremony\” 25-31); \“Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees\” (142-45), and \“Falcon Malone Can Fly No More\” (201-17). In addition, there is an ad for the forthcoming The Black Utopia, A History of Soul City, by Cadillac Johnson, a protagonist in Soul City, to be published by Negritude University Press. 1369 pp. (257).\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Tour{\'e} [Nesblett] (b. 1971)} } @booklet {5665, title = {Zahrah the Windseeker}, year = {2005}, note = {

An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.

}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Houghton Mifflin}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend\&$\#$39;s snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively.\ A related story is \"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.\” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} } @booklet {9791, title = {Asphalt}, year = {2004}, note = {

The novel was made into a play by the author with live music and video and performed at the CalArts Theater February 2 - 4, 2006.\ 

}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Atria Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex novel set in a war-torn New York City. The protagonist, who has recently returned from France, ends up in a poor, deteriorating neighborhood in Brooklyn and the novel follows his interactions with his neighbors and flashbacks to his childhood.\ Although much of the novel was written before 9/11, the novel is obviously influenced by that day.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Rux, Carl Hancock} } @booklet {8597, title = {Sunshine Patriots}, year = {2004}, note = {

Rpt.\ College Park, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2014. U.K. ed. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House UK, 2012.

}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Hats Off Books}, address = {Tucson, AX}, abstract = {

Satirical corporate dystopia.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Bill Campbell (b. 1970)} } @booklet {5510, title = {"Sweet Dreams"}, howpublished = {Dark Matter: Reading the Bones}, year = {2004}, note = {

An earlier, shorter version was originally published in\ StoryQuarterly, no. 36 (2000): 111-16.

}, month = {2004}, pages = {243-55}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Political satire. After voters dropped most taxes, government developed \"dream meters\" so that dreams, including daydreams could be taxed.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Charles Johnson}, editor = {Sheree R[en{\'e}e] Thomas (b. 1972)} } @booklet {5541, title = {"When Scarabs Multiply"}, howpublished = {So Long Been Dreaming}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {70-78}, publisher = {Arsenal Pulp Press}, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)}, editor = {[Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) and Uppinder Mehan} } @booklet {9603, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Book of Martha{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Bloodchild and Other Stories}, volume = {2nd ed}, year = {2003}, note = {

Rpt. without the \“Afterword\” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction\’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773).

Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.

}, month = {May 21, 2003/2005}, pages = {187-214 with an {\textquotedblleft}Afterword{\textquotedblright} on 214}, publisher = {Seven Stories Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the \“Afterword\” she calls this her \“utopia story.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {5320, title = {"Afrofuture--Dystopic Unity"}, howpublished = {Social Text}, volume = { no. 71 (20.2)}, year = {2002}, month = {Summer 2002}, pages = {93-94}, abstract = {

Poem--dystopia of keeping blacks in inferior roles.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tracie Morris} } @booklet {10263, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Bigger Fool{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {180-85}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

The story depicts a high-tech society based on slavery and a slave revolt.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {5292, title = {"Bitter Nigger Inc."}, howpublished = {Social Text}, volume = { no. 71 (20.2) }, year = {2002}, month = {Summer 2002}, pages = {115-23}, abstract = {

Brief introduction to a company with illustrations (mostly illegible) of its products. The company\&$\#$39;s\ divisions are Bitter Nigger Broadcast Network, Bitter Nigger Product Division, and Bitter Nigger Pharmaceuticals. One product, Tominex, is the \“go-along-to-get-along medication\” and said to be \“the only over the counter medication to remove your yearning for fairness or human decency.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tana Hargest} } @booklet {10272, title = {{\textquotedblleft}By the Way, Mom, I{\textquoteright}ve Turned Gay{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories }, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {280-86}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

Satire in which a virus is released that temporarily turns men gay.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {10273, title = {{\textquotedblleft}I am Four Years Old I Don{\textquoteright}t Want To Be a Soldier{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {269-73}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

In the story, children as young as four are exposed to the horrors of war in the hopes that the memory will keep the world peaceful.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {10247, title = {Lion{\textquoteright}s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {461 pp. }, publisher = {Aspect/Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O\’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O\&$\#$39;Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {10265, title = {The Promised Land{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {30-45, with an author{\textquoteright}s note on 29-30}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

After the Confederacy wins the Civil war and secedes from the Union, it becomes a successful industrial country and finds slaves an incumbrance. They solve the problem by forcibly marching all the slaves into the western territories, purportedly to settle them on reservation, Instead, they slaughter them all.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {5277, title = {"Protection"}, howpublished = {Femspec }, volume = {3.2}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {75-78}, abstract = {

Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)} } @booklet {10267, title = {"Scales of Justice"}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {69-75}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

The story depicts a new system of justice in which mass murderers are executed, brought back to life, and executed again until executed as many times as the number of people they killed.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {10275, title = {"Welcome to the Old South"}, howpublished = {Black Science Fiction Stories}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {346-52}, publisher = {Infinity Publishing.com}, address = {Haverford, PA}, abstract = {

A black couple moves from the Northeast to a small town in the South that has decidedly dystopian features.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003)} } @booklet {5209, title = {Futureland}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Aspect/Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Nine related stories set in a future dystopia. Of the stories, Whispers in the Dark,\” \“Doctor Kismet,\” \“Angel\’s Island,\” \“Little Brother,\” \“En Masse,\” and \“The Nig in Me\” are the most explicitly dystopian, and in all of them African Americans and the poor are the oppressed.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952)} } @booklet {11945, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Patient Zero{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {99.2 (587)}, year = {2000}, note = {

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.

}, month = {August 2000}, pages = {5-21}, abstract = {

Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)} } @booklet {5131, title = {Saturn{\textquoteright}s Race}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Mostly adventure and conflict but begins with a flawed eutopia. An apparently ideal island for the world\&$\#$39;s rich is a base for illegal genetic manipulation and world conquest.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US author}, author = {Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) and Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {5142, title = {"Separation Anxiety"}, howpublished = {Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora}, year = {2000}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed.\ Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),\ \ 509-524.

}, month = {2000}, pages = {51-68}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Evie Shockley (b. 1965)}, editor = {Sheree R[en{\'e}e] Thomas (b. 1972)} } @booklet {4980, title = {"My Recent Visit to Xanadu"}, howpublished = {Xanadu, the Imaginary Place}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, pages = {[1-2]}, publisher = {Shakti for Children}, address = {Durham, NC}, abstract = {

A brief description of a eutopia written for children in which there is racial harmony, no tobacco or weapons, no crime and no police,\ and \“love, justice, and tolerance.\” The eutopia is accompanied by stories and poems about and illustrations of Xanadu by children that range from the traditional Cockaige with a volcano the expels candy to the poignant desire that every child has a mother and father to racial diversity and world peace. All the children are in elementary school.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John Hope Franklin (1915-2009)}, editor = {Maya Ajmera and Olateju Omolodun} } @booklet {10430, title = {Afrolantica Legacies}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Third World Press}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

The author introduced the idea of Afrolantica in his \“The Afrolantica Awakening.\” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 32-46, 203-04. In it, Afrolantica emerges 900 miles east of South Carolina as an area about the size of New England complete with flourishing flora and fauna and valuable mineral deposits but no humans. In fact, it appeared that humans could not survive there, but it becomes obvious that African Americans and only African Americans can survive there. What the first African American explorers felt \“was an invigorating experience of heightened self-esteem, of liberation, of waking up. All four agreed that, while exploring what the media were now referring to as \‘Afrolantica,\’ they felt free.\” The essay/story then reprises some of the history of Black Nationalism and details the conflict among blacks over whether or not to settle Afrolantica. The piece then ends where the Afrolantica Legacies begins, and the rest of the volume has his fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw time travel to points key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. See also, 1987, 1991, and 1992 Bell.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011)} } @booklet {8578, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Battle Neverending{\textquoteright}{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Battle Neverending }, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {45-71}, publisher = {Share the Wealth Publications}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A fictional interview of the African American superhero Tommorrowman by the U.S. journalist Bill Moyers (b. 1934). Tommorowman has been given his powers by an alien from a \“pacifist, democratic, multicultural, and egalitarian\” Interstellar Community (47). Mostly commentary on contemporary events.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Saab Lofton} } @booklet {10304, title = {Blue Light. A Novel}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

A light from space transforms those it touches by giving them a special talent and raises them to their highest potential, except for one who is turned into a demon intent on killing all the others. The protagonist is a bi-racial man.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952)} } @booklet {8580, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Make Love, Not War{\textquoteright}{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Battle Neverending }, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {27-41}, publisher = {Share the Wealth Publications}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The dystopia of the present from the point-of-view of an African American activist plus elements of alternative dystopian and eutopian futures.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Saab Lofton} } @booklet {4866, title = {Parable of the Talents}, year = {1998}, note = {

An excerpt was published as \“Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.\” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, \“Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler\” (149-58).\ 

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Seven Stories Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {8581, title = {Paradise}, year = {1998}, note = {

UK ed. London: Chatto \& Windus, 1998.

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is based around a community of African Americans that was founded to be a utopian enclave.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Toni Morrison (1931-2019)} } @booklet {8579, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Rapture{\textquoteright}{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Battle Neverending }, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {7-23}, publisher = {Share the Wealth Publications}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Humorous story of an angel who tries to continue to be politically involved to avoid the coming dystopia in the U.S.\ See also 1995 Lofton.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Saab Lofton} } @booklet {8570, title = {Aftermath}, year = {1997}, note = {

An excerpt from the novel was published in\ Octavia\’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 215-23.

}, month = {1997}, publisher = {Warner Books/Aspect}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia depicting the development of racial conflict in the U.S. leading to a civil war on racial lines between 2015-2018, the collapse of the U.S., and the situation in the year after the war ends.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {LeVar Burton} } @booklet {4779, title = {The Moons of Palmares}, year = {1997}, note = {

An excerpt was published in\ Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor\’s note on 171-73.\ 

}, month = {1997}, publisher = {Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press}, address = {Toronto, ON, Canada}, abstract = {

Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence.

}, keywords = {African American author, Canadian author, Female author, Native American author}, author = {Zainab Amadahy (b.1956)} } @booklet {4734, title = {The Last Integrationist}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Crown Publishers}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a near future U.S. with extremely harsh laws against drugs and public executions enforced by a conservative black Attorney-General.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Jake Lamar (b. 1961)} } @booklet {4650, title = {A.D}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, publisher = {III Publishing}, address = {Gualala, CA}, abstract = {

A dystopia set in 2030 in which the U.S. is divided between the Nation of Islam and the White Aryan Resistance followed by a eutopia set in 2410 which is governed by the Libertarian Socialist Democracy, which is a flawed utopia. The African American protagonist is rejected by and rejects the Nation of Islam\ and declares himself an orthodox Muslim. Waking in the future, he finds it extremely strange and has extreme difficulty fitting in and does not really try to adjust.\ See \“Introduction \‘Writings From Exile\’.\” In his\ Battle Neverending\ (Np: Share the Wealth Publications, 1998), 1-3 for his comments on the reception of the book.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Saab Lofton} } @booklet {4399, title = {Firedance}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1983 and 1989 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the previous volumes has to fight clones of himself and the dictator of United Africa.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {4411, title = {Parable of the Sower}, year = {1993}, note = {

See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q \& A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).

}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Four Walls Eight Windows}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls \“hyperempathy\” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called \“Earthseed\” can take root. Bothered by writer\’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, \“\‘There\&$\#$39;s Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns\’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler\&$\#$39;s Lost Parables.\” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {4331, title = {Negrophobia: An Urban Parable}, year = {1992}, note = {

Rpt. New York: St. Martin\&$\#$39;s Press, 1993; and New York: New York Review Books, 2019, with an \“Introduction\” by Amy Abugo Ongiri (vii-xvi); and a \“Preface\” by the author (xvii-xxvi).\ 

}, month = {1992}, publisher = {Citadel Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An experimental novel that explores the dystopia of American racism.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Darius James (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4293, title = {"The Space Traders"}, howpublished = {Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism}, year = {1992}, note = {

Rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 326-55.An earlier, shorter version was published as \“The Chronicles of the Space Traders\” as part of his \“After We\&$\#$39;re Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Post-Racial Epoch A Forum on Derrick Bell\&$\#$39;s Civil Rights Chronicles--1989 Sanford E Sarasohn Memorial Lecture.\” Saint Louis University Law Journal 34.3 (Spring 1990): 397-400. The issue of the journal includes articles discussing the story. A slightly different version was published under the same title as part of his \“Racism: A Prophecy for the Year 2000.\” Rutgers Law Review 42.1 (Fall 1989): 96-100.\ 

}, month = {1992}, pages = {158-94, 212-13}, publisher = {Basic Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian satire. Aliens visiting the US offer to provide the country with everything needed to solve many of its problems in exchange for the entire African American population. Offered enough gold to bail out the country, chemicals that can un-pollute the environment, and a safe nuclear energy and fuel to overcome the energy crisis, the US government agrees, and all African Americans are loaded onto what are obviously slave ships. See also 1987, 1991, and 1998 Bell.\ For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011)} } @booklet {4254, title = {Achilles{\textquoteright} Choice}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US author}, author = {Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) and Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {10429, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {California Law Review }, volume = {79.3}, year = {1991}, note = {

Rpt. as \“The Racial Preference Licensing Act.\” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06.\ 

}, month = {May 1991}, pages = {597-611}, abstract = {

Congress passes an act under which \“all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color\” (47-48).\ See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011)} } @booklet {9960, title = {The Gilda Stories. A Novel}, year = {1991}, note = {

[25th Anniversary ed.]\ San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2016, with a \“Foreword\” by the author (xi-xii) and an \“Afterword. Blood Relations: Gilda and the Stakes of Our Future\” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs \ (253-59). U. K. ed. London: Sheba Feminist Press, 1992. Parts previously published as \“. . . Night.\”\ The American Voice, no. 4 (Fall 1986): 42-46; \“No Day Too Long.\”\ Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology. Ed. Elly Bulkin (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981), 219-24; rpt. in\ Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Camilla DeCarin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1986), 215-23. \“Woman Who Loved the Moon.\”\ The Village Voice Literary Supplement.\ 

}, month = {1991}, publisher = {Firebrand Books}, address = {Ithaca, NY}, abstract = {

The novel is composed of separate stories set in different time periods beginning in Louisiana in 1850. The protagonist is a slave who becomes a vampire who is a lesbian, and most of the novel is set in places and periods (\“Yerba Buena: 1890,\” \“Rosebud, Missouri: 1921,\” \“South End: 1955, \“Off-Broadway: 1971,\” and \“Down by the Riverside: 1981\”) that allow the author to explore the situation of African Americans, gay people, and other outsiders in that time and place. The last two stories (\“Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: 2020\” (219-31) and \“Land on Enchantment: 2050\” (233-52) are set in a future devastated by climate change and in which outsiders remain at risk. Her \“Houston.\” In her Don\’t Explain. Short Fiction (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1998), 148-60 is set between these two stories. The title is pronounced like the New York city street, not like the Texas city. \ \“Caramelle 1864.\” Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction. Ed. Stefanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle (Clayton, NC: BLF Press, 2019), 9-29 is set near the end of the Civil War. The most recent Gilda story, \“Merida, Yucatan: 2060.\” Baffling Magazine, no. 1 (October 2020) https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-one/merida-yucatan-2060 begins at what had been the U.S. Mexico border before Trump\’s policies had exacerbated climate change and destroyed and depopulated the area with Gilda moving toward the south where she plans to join others leaving the planet. Often compared to Octavia E. Butler\’s Kindred (1979).\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author, Native American author}, author = {Jewelle [Lydia] Gomez (b. 1948)} } @booklet {11710, title = {Death of a Native Alien}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, pages = {176 pp.}, publisher = {[Steladon Press]}, address = {[Upper Marlboro, MD]}, abstract = {

Race relations in the United States in the twentieth century, depicted through the experiences of a Zirconian on the planet Terra where the Gringoa are Dominant.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Stephen W. DeBrew (b. 1956)} } @booklet {4165, title = {Transform Node: Science Fiction Mystical Adventures}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {Vantage Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A collection of related stories with a stress on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) that allows better connections among people. A number of the stories, including the title story, are primarily concerned with mysticism, which will help the people create a future eutopia.\ \ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Ronn Parker} } @booklet {4135, title = {Zulus}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {The Permanent Press}, address = {Sag Harbor, NY}, abstract = {

Apocalyptic science fiction set after a nuclear war in which all but one 300-pound woman are no longer fertile.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Everett, Percival} } @booklet {4012, title = {Gorgon Child}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1983 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the first volume has to fight against a religious dystopia. See also 1993 Barnes.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {4081, title = {The Terrible Threes}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Atheneum}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1982 Reed. Dystopian satire on U.S. politics emphasizing religion. See also his 2021 The Terrible Twos.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938)} } @booklet {3902, title = {"A Toast of Babatine"}, howpublished = {Sinister Wisdom}, volume = {no. 34}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, pages = {59-65}, abstract = {

Lesbian eutopia that has been in existence for six generations. Operates with no rules but selects what they call servants, who appear to be something like overseers, each season.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Donna Allegra (b. 1953)} } @booklet {10428, title = {And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Basic Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The \“Prologue to Part I\” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011)} } @booklet {9961, title = {Beloved. A Novel}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex novel based reflecting on the dystopia of American slavery and the way memory reconstructs the past.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Toni Morrison (1931-2019)} } @booklet {3807, title = {Dawn: Xenogenesis}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. in her\ Lilith\&$\#$39;s Brood\ (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.

}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972).\ The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith\’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith\’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {11608, title = {Dawn: Xenogenesis}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. in her Lilith\’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248

}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith\’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith\’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {9506, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Evening and the Morning and the Night{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omni Magazine}, volume = {9.8}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback $\#$ 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an \“Afterword\” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the \“Afterword\” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).

}, month = {May 1987}, pages = {56, 62, 108, 110, 113, 116, 118, 120}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of \“others\”.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {10221, title = {Jacob{\textquoteright}s Ladder. A Novel}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Thunder{\textquoteright}s Mouth Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is about a fictitious African country that has won its freedom and has a leader who is struggling, with some success,\  to bring a better life to the people while avoiding the dystopia that corruption and neocolonialism that had undermined such efforts in most actual African countries at the time.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {3499, title = {Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1990 with an \“Afterword\” by the author (376-85);\ Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004\ with the \“Afterword\” (349-56) and a \“Foreword\” by Carl Freedman (xi-xiv). An extract\ was originally published under the same title in\ Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction. Ed. Christopher Carrell (Sunderland, Eng.: Ceolfrith Arts, 1973), 71-75; and a more substantial part was published as \“from\ Stars in my pockets like grains of sand.\”\ TriQuarterly, no. 49 (Fall 1980): 131-61.\ 

}, month = {1984}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex far future novel depicting various societies including eutopias and dystopias. The novel begins with a description of a dystopia from the point-of-view of a slave who remains a character throughout the novel. This was expected to be the first of two volumes, to be followed by\ The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities, which remains unpublished.\ An excerpt was published as \“From The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities.\” Review of Contemporary Fiction 16.3 (Fall 1996): 103-15; rpt. without the From in Out of the Ruins. Ed. Preston Grassman (London: Titan Books, 2021), 117-36. One of the characters, Vondramach Okk, appears in his \“Omegahelm.\” Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981). Rpt. illus. John Coffey\ (New York: ibooks, 2004), 263-78; rpt. in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 312-26; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 260-72

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {3476, title = {Plan B}, year = {1983}, month = {1983}, publisher = {University of Mississippi Press}, address = {Jackson}, abstract = {

Near future Black revolution.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author}, author = {Chester [Bomar] Himes (1908-84)}, editor = {Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner} } @booklet {3465, title = {"Speech Sounds"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {7.13 (73) }, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Fiction 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 513-24; in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, \& Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 337-47 with an editors\’ note on 336; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 87-110 with an \“Afterword\” on 109-10; in A Woman\’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 185-200; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 185-97; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 245-55; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 566-79 with an editors\’ note on 566-67; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 604-619, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772).

}, month = {Mid-December 1983}, pages = {26-40}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the loss of the ability to communicate and the resulting violence. Those who can speak and write must keep it secret. African American female author.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {3427, title = {Streetlethal}, year = {1983}, month = {1983}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of organized crime, drugs, and violence. See also 1989 and 1993 Barnes.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952)} } @booklet {3411, title = {The Terrible Twos}, year = {1982}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Atheneum, 1988. An excerpt, \“Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos,\” was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 275-89.

}, month = {1982}, pages = {178 pp.}, publisher = {St. Martin{\textquoteright}s/Marek}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satiric dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics in which economic and political leaders behave like a spoiled two year old. See also his 1989 The Terrible Threes, and his 2021 The Terrible Fours.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {0-312-79199-2 }, author = {Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938)} } @booklet {3331, title = {Gathering}, year = {1981}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Greenwillow Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1981 Hamilton. In this volume, the protagonists battle the ruler of the dystopian future, win, and return home.

}, keywords = {African American author}, author = {Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002)} } @booklet {3229, title = {Dustland}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Greenwillow Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The second volume of the Justice Cycle. The first volume, Justice and Her Brothers. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1978, is not utopian but introduces the characters, who have exceptional powers. In this volume, they travel to a barren future characterized by the title. See also 1981 Hamilton.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002)} } @booklet {3214, title = {Nealities: Doc Genius and Henry the Stud}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Vantage Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

African American eutopia using African and African American history and legend.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Merzie Wilson} } @booklet {8805, title = {Kindred}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1988 with an \“Introduction\” by Robert Crossley (ix-xxvii); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 1-271, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (756-757), and Notes (761-769).

Adapted as a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. New York: AbramsComicArt, 2017, with an \“Introduction\” by Nnedi Okorafor (iv-vi).

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co.}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The dystopia of U.S. slavery written in the form of a slave narrative by a woman who lives simultaneously in the past and the present.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781598536751}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {11019, title = {{\textquotedblleft}[American Journal]{\textquotedblright}}, year = {1978}, note = {

Rpt. (New York/London: Liveright, 1982), 57-60; and in Collected Poems. Ed. Frederick Glaysher (New York/London: Liveright, 2013), 192-95.\ 

}, month = {1978}, pages = {unpaged}, publisher = {Effendi Press}, address = {Taunton, MA}, abstract = {

Poem in which an alien tries to understand America and Americans and explain them to The Counselors.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {9780871401274 978-0-87140-679-8}, author = {Robert [Earl] Hayden (1913-80)} } @booklet {9582, title = {The Last Days of the Sunshine People}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, pages = {58 pp.}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

A play about a plan to eliminate all Blacks in the U.S. showing the stages it goes through and the failure of Blacks to believe warnings. Closely related to his 1973\ Count-Down to Black Genocide\ in that in both, a \“Black Day\” is proclaimed as a holiday to honor blacks, but it is actually the day on which the slaughter of blacks is to happen. At the end, some Blacks do come to believe the plan is real inspired by a man who has been given a book called\ The Code of the Black Brotherhood. These blacks decide to create a new nation, Afro-America, also mentioned in\ Count-Down to Black Genocide. See also 1971, 1974, and 1975 (2).

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {2844, title = {Triton}, year = {1976}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.\ 

}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia and dystopia. All things are easily possible, including sex changes, and everyone is free to do almost anything. Much conflict and political intrigue but on balance more eutopian than dystopian.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9269, title = {The Crucifixion of Brotherman (The Man Behind the Laughing Shadow). A Play (from the Notes of Brotherman)}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {62 pp.}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The dystopia of being a Black man, particularly a Black scientist, in the U.S. The play focuses on the mistreatment of an up-and-coming Black graduate student. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, I Am Ishmael, and 1978 Shears.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {2809, title = {Dhalgren}, year = {1975}, note = {

Rev. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

}, month = {1975}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia set in a city called Bellona in what appears to be a post-catastrophe America where reality is constantly shifting. Much violence, including sexual violence. Includes a commune in a park.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9654, title = {I Am Ishmael, Son of the Blackamoor. A Play}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {76 pp.}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The play is about a charismatic African American who, because he is so popular, becomes Vice President of the U. S., marries a white woman, and then, on the death of the President, becomes President. Although his progressive policies are both popular and successful, because he married the white woman, a white man who wanted her vows to kill him and so do black women, who feel betrayed by him.\ See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears,\ The\ Crucifixion of Brotherman, and 1978 Shears.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {9268, title = {Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone}, year = {1974}, month = {1974}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

Details the rise to power of a Black general that resulted from the dystopia created by government in eliminating individual freedom and favoring the wealthy. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.\ \ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {10254, title = {The Militants}, year = {1974}, month = {1974}, pages = {158 pp.}, publisher = {Carlton Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Black and white men and women working together, and sometimes against each other, planning and fomenting a revolution against the white patriarchy.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Nivi-Kofi A. Easley} } @booklet {9666, title = {Captain Blackman}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. with an \“Introduction\” by Alexs Pate (i-ix). Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2000

}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Most of the novel is concerned with the experiences of African Americans in the U. S. military, specifically in Vietnam. It ends, though with two brief scenes, the first of depicting white officers planning to eliminate African Americans from the military. The second depicts the failure of the plan because African Americans have slowly established themselves in Africa, where they were free from surveillance and have gradually taken control of U. S. nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. The first scene is intended to be the culmination of the dystopian experience of African Americans in the military; the second is intended to be the first step to a better society.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {9267, title = {Count-Down to Black Genocide}, year = {1973}, note = {

2nd ed. Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1973. The pagination\ of the two \“editions\” is identical.\ 

}, month = {1973}, pages = {xi + 133 pp.}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The dystopia brought about by a plan to eliminate the Black population of the United States in response to the energy crisis. The plan is carried out and most Blacks are killed. The remaining Blacks form Afro-America in what was Florida. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {9837, title = {The Lynchers}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

As a part of their protest against the dystopia created for blacks in the United States, four black man plan on lynching a white policeman.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941)} } @booklet {2640, title = {Operation Burning Candle. A Novel}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, publisher = {Third Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The dystopia of contemporary U.S. race relations gives rise to a successful plot to kill a number of racist Southern politicians while they are at a political convention in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The ending suggests both that the elimination of these politicians will ease the way to racial integration and that it creates greater solidarity among African Americans.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Blyden Jackson (1910-2000)} } @booklet {9749, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Ahab{\textquoteright}s Journey{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Neggar Journeys into Nightmares. Stories}, year = {1972}, month = {1972}, pages = {1-14}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which all the details of life are dictated by the high priests. The story seems to be about being able to overcome those things that are powerful enough to control us, specifically religion, love/sex, and alcohol, but at the end the protagonist still hopes to find the high priests. See also 1971 (2), 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {11474, title = {Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff}, year = {1972}, note = {

Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. \“Les Blancs is 47-172, with \“A Critical Background\” (35-46) and \“Postscript\” by Neimroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his \“Introduction\” (3-32).

}, month = {1972}, pages = {120 pp.}, publisher = {Samuel French}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet\’s Les N{\`e}gres (1958).

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Lorraine [Vivian] Hansberry (1930-65)} } @booklet {2534, title = {Mumbo Jumbo}, year = {1972}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia. One thread of a thematically and typographically complex novel is a conspiracy of whites to destroy African American culture.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938)} } @booklet {9675, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Niggers and Po{\textquoteright} White Trash. Stories}, year = {1971}, month = {1971}, pages = {11-23}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The story is a discussion between the President and a senior adviser, who is black, prior to the following law going into effect. \“Any parent or parents, who are declared functionally or totally illiterate by a test administered by the Health, Welfare, and Education Department of the United States Government, without regard to race, color, or creed, will be placed in an education center for the purposes of bringing their reading and writing level up to the standards of the nation\’s. Their children will be placed in an appropriate children\’s home. If after a two-year period the parent or parents have not reached the necessary level, they will be sterilized and placed in an urban reservation for the mentally deficient for the rest of their lives. From that day forward, all rights as citizens will be forfeited. The parent or parents then become wards of the state\” (22). The senior adviser believes that the law will mostly effect blacks. Another story in the same volume, \“If There Is a Knock\” (38-47) is about how the law affects poor blacks. See also 1971 Shears \"That Day,\" 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Carl L[ee] Shears (1937-79)} } @booklet {9748, title = {"That Day"}, howpublished = {Niggers and Po{\textquoteright} White Trash. Stories }, year = {1971}, month = {1971}, pages = {24-37}, publisher = {Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The story about the dystopia that is black/white relations in a small town in Georgia and the opposition of both to a young black man who has been admitted to a predominantly white university. At the end, the white police chief kills him. See also 1971 Shears, \“Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day,\” 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79)} } @booklet {2368, title = {King Strut}, year = {1970}, month = {1970}, publisher = {Bobbs-Merrill}, address = {Indianapolis, IN}, abstract = {

Black revolution presented positively but with substantial satire directed at the way the political system functions, particularly its favoritism and corruption. The novel focuses on a black politician, Hiram Elliott Quinault, possibly based on Adam Clayton Powell (1908-72), who rises to a position of seniority in the House of Representatives. His rise leads to the inevitable backlash from the established white politicians, who uses every means available to demean and diminish him. When a group of black nationalists declare the independence of Blackland in Mississippi from the U.S. and ask Quinault to be their President, he accepts, is expelled from Congress, and assassinated. In retaliation, the black nationalists kill twelve Congressmen and wounding others.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Charles Sumner] Chuck Stone (1924-2014)} } @booklet {2208, title = {The Shades of Time; A Science-Fiction Novella}, year = {1969}, month = {1969}, publisher = {The William-Frederick Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Future with a series of eutopias and dystopias, all very technologically advanced. Begins with a near eutopia of reason combined with the recognition of the need for passion and exercise. A dystopia of humanity controlled by superior intellects becomes a flawed utopia. It all turns out to be an induced dream.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {William A Darity Jr. (b. 1953)} } @booklet {2270, title = {Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability}, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Eyre \& Spottiswoode, 1970. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973,

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Near future racial conflict in the U.S. when African Americans begin to fight back. Presented as a positive development.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {2252, title = {The Spook Who Sat By the Door}, year = {1969}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Allison \& Busby, 1969. An excerpt was published in The Observer Magazine (March 9, 1969): 46-51.

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {P.W. Baron}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Black revolution in the U.S.\ in which the gangs of Chicago are organized into a disciplined fighting unit.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Sam[uel Eldred] Greenlee [Jr.] (1930-2014)} } @booklet {2183, title = {"Lines of Power: We, in Some Strange Power{\textquoteright}s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {34.5 (204) }, year = {1968}, note = {

Rpt. as \“We, in Some Strange Power\’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line.\” In his\ Distant Stars\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352. Rpt. (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his\ Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction\ (New York: New American Library, 1971), 139-90. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-84. Rpt. Illus. Michael Sorkin. in his\ Distant Stars\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352;\ rpt. illus. Michael Sorkin\ (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-83; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 155-222;\ and in his\ Aye and Gomorrah. Stories\ (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 122-81.\ 

}, month = {May 1968}, pages = {4-46}, abstract = {

Conflict between two visions of a better life, one technologically based and one off the grid. The law requires that every community above a certain very small size must be provided with electrical power whether it is wanted or not.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9951, title = {"Aye, and Gomorrah"}, howpublished = {Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories}, year = {1967}, note = {

Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 111-20. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977.\ Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 101-11; in\ The Best of the Nebulas\ (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 143-50, with an \“Author\’s Foreword\” on 142; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 118-30; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.

}, month = {1967}, pages = {534-44 with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} (532-34) by Ellison and an {\textquotedblleft}Afterword{\textquotedblright} (544) by Delany}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which spacers must be neutered and focuses on how this affects both the spacers and the population, some of whom are sexually attracted to them.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)}, editor = {Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018)} } @booklet {2108, title = {The Black Commandos. A Novel}, year = {1967}, note = {

Rpt. under the authors name as The Black Commandos: Warriors Forged in Blood. 2nd ed. Np: Julian Jackson and Commando Publishing Group, 2013, with an Introduction by Julian Jackson, the author\’s son.

}, month = {1967}, publisher = {The Cultural Institute Press}, address = {Atlanta, GA}, abstract = {

The novel begins with the dystopia of the Black experience in the American South and then turns to the formation of a large group of Black Commandos who, with a new weapon, defeat the U.S. government. The novel ends with the statement that there will be thirty years of Black dominance before real equality will be possible.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-061583843}, author = {[Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008)} } @booklet {2097, title = {The Man Who Cried I Am}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Little, Brown and Co.}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Commentary on the racial situation in the U.S. in the form of a fictionalized biography of the writer Richard Wright (1908-60) plus the fictional Central Intelligence Agency plan called the King Alfred Plan for future control of African Americans by cordoning them off from the rest of the country. Many African Americans came to believe in the reality of the plan, which mirrored some actual proposals.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015)} } @booklet {2106, title = {{\textquoteright}Sippi}, year = {1967}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle\ A Novel. New York: Thunder\&$\#$39;s Mouth Press, 1988.

}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Trident Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of contemporary race relations in the U.S. and the state of Mississippi in particular. The novel ends with the murder of one of the Black protagonists leading to a world-wide uprising of Black peoples.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {John Oliver Killens (1916-87)} } @booklet {9505, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Star-Pit{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Worlds of Tomorrow}, volume = {4.3 (22) }, year = {1967}, note = {

Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction\ (New York: New American Library, 1971), 13-71. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977.\ Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 1-61; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 17-93; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.

}, month = {February 1967}, pages = {7-57}, abstract = {

A very complex dystopia. Set in a future where, as the human race expanded into space, it came up against a psychological barrier that caused insanity in those who went further, except for a few who found to have psychological abnormalities that allow them to pass through. The story focuses of a man who feels excluded because he cannot pass through the barrier and deeply resents that fact. The story makes an explicit connection between white supremacy and those who can pass through the barrier, but at the end, such people are being created by manipulating them so as to develop the needed abnormality for the benefit of those in power. For a radio play first broadcast on WBAI (New York) in November 1967 and re-broadcast regularly for years, see Delany\’s \“Notes on The Star Pit.\” https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/TheStarPit/SamuelRDelany-NotesOnTheStarPit.html

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9653, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Day of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Happy Ending and Day of Absence. Two Plays }, year = {1966}, month = {1966}, pages = {27-58}, publisher = {Dramatists Play Service}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The play takes place in one typical dystopian small Southern town in which all the Negroes disappear for one day and shows how completely the whites are dependent on them.\ The play was first performed November 15, 1965, at the St. Mark\’s Playhouse, New York.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Douglas Turner Ward (b. 1939)} } @booklet {2024, title = {The Fall of the Towers}, year = {1966}, note = {

Contains\ revised versions of Captives of the Flame. New York: Ace Books, 1963; rev. as Out of the Dead City which was Delany\’s original title. New York: Ace Books, 1966. U.K. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; Towers of Toron. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; and City of a Thousand Suns. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1969.

}, month = {1966}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a free, communal eutopia.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {9652, title = {Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable}, year = {1965}, month = {1965}, publisher = {Harcourt, Brace \& World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in one dystopian county in Mississippi created through the machinations of a corrupt lawyer and an equally corrupt judge, killing or driving out the indigenous population, and re-establishing what amounted to slavery after the Civil War, a system that continued to the time of the novel. When the Federal government finally tries to bring change to the county, the federal marshals\ are thrown in jail. At this point, the Negroes revolt, burn down the town, and kill most of the tormentors while saving the white women and children. The title refers to the thousands of Negroes who had been killed previously.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Ronald L. Fair (b. 1932)} } @booklet {9536, title = {A Different Drummer}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 1989 with a \“Foreword\” by David Bradley (xi-xxxii); and London: riverrun, 2018, with a \“Foreword: \‘The Lost Giant of American Literature\’\” by Kathryn Schulz (ix-xxxiv), which was originally published in The New Yorker\ 93.36 (January 29, 2018): 26-31 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant-of-american-literature); and \“A Biography of William Melvin Kelley\” by Jessica Kelley (his daughter) (295-302).

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The novel begins in the South that is a dystopia for all African Americans. One man revolts, salts his fields, kills his livestock, burns his house down, and leaves. All the other African Americans in the town follow his example.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017)} } @booklet {9686, title = {The Jewels of Aptor}, year = {1962}, note = {

\ Rev. ed. New York: Ace Books, 1968 which restores cut in the first edition; U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. Further rev. London: Sphere Books, 1971; rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an \“Introduction\” by Don Hausdorff (v-xii).

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-atomic age dystopian quest novel with much fantasy.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942)} } @booklet {6990, title = {"The Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Pittsburgh Courier }, year = {1937}, note = {

Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler\’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A \“Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates\” (310-312), Appendix C \“Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler\” (317-323), and Appendix D \“Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction\” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction (359).

}, month = {October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938}, abstract = {

Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 143-258 with a \“Foreword\” to the volume by John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (xvii-xx), an \“Afterword\” by the editors (259-323), \“Schuyler\’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)\” (325-27), and George S. Schuyler\’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1933-1939)\” (337-44). Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler\’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A \“Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates\” (310-312), Appendix C \“Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler\” (317-323), and Appendix D \“Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction\” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction (359). PSt

Sequel to 1936-7 Schuyler in which the Black Internationale is established in Liberia to carry out its mission of liberating Africa. After Liberia is attacked by European forces, much of the novel is on the war. Everyone is required to have a thorough physical exam, and if they are found to have an incurable disease, they are euthanized. On the other hand, they have developed permanent cures for many diseases. Model kitchens that will be established throughout Africa both prepare food for the district and are used to teach people the relationship between a good diet and health. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in \“The Rise of the Black Internationale.\” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977)}, editor = {Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen} } @booklet {6988, title = {"The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Pittsburgh Courier }, year = {1936}, note = {

Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler\’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-168, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A \“Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates\” (307-310), Appendix B \“Notes for \‘The Black Internationale\’\” (313-316), Appendix C \“Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler\” (317-323), and Appendix D \“Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction\” (325-329), and Notes The Black Internationale (331-336) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler\’s Genre Fiction (359).

}, month = {November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937}, abstract = {

A novella in which an African American brings together African American professionals, the Black Internationale, to liberate Africa from white colonial oppression using whatever means is available, including a level of violence comparable to that of the colonists. Schuyler stresses the exceptional quality of the people involved and makes clear that not all blacks as intelligent. 1937-8 Schuyler is a sequel. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in \“The Rise of the Black Internationale.\” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977)}, editor = {Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen} } @booklet {811, title = {Black No More: Being An Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940}, year = {1931}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969;\ College Park, MD: McGrath Publishing Co., 1969;\ Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989; without the subtitle. London: The X Press, 1998; as Black No More. A Novel. New York: The Modern Library, 1999 with an \“Introduction\” by Ishmael Reed (ix-xiii); with the subtitle in\ Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes Black No More George Schuyler The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher Black Thunder Arna Bontemps. Ed. Rafia Zafar (New York: The Library of America, 2011), 219-372; and with the subtitle New York: Penguin Books, 2018, with an \“Introduction\” by Danzy Senna (ix-xix).\ An excerpt was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 35-50; and\ in Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Henry, Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie Smith. 2 vols. 3rd. ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), 1: 122-37.\ 

}, month = {1931}, publisher = {The Macauley Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire. The personal and social effects of a process to whiten black skins. See also 1936-37 and 1937-38 Schuyler. A musical, based loosely on the novel, directed by Scott Elliott, written by John Ridley, lyrics and music by Tariq Trotter; music by Anthony Tidd, James Poyser and Daryl Waters; and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, was performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York City, in February 2022. His \“Our Greatest Gift to America.\”\ Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, Ed. Charles Spurgeon Johnson (New York: Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life: National Urban League, 1927). Rpt. in\ Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. V. F. Calverton (New York: The Modern Library, 1929), 405-12 resonates with this book in that the gift is flattering whites. See also the author\’s autobiography,\ Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966; and\ Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {George S[amuel] Schuyler (1895-1977)} } @booklet {697, title = {Dark Princess. A Romance}, year = {1928}, note = {

Rpt. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thompson, 1974, with an \“Introduction\” by Herbert Aptheker (5-29); Jackson: Banner Books University Press of Mississippi, 1995; and as a volume in\ The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 with an \"Introduction\" by Homi K. Bhabha (xxv-xxxi).

}, month = {1928}, publisher = {Harcourt, Brace and Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel begins with an excellent African-American medical student being denied the right to continue because, as a black, he is not permitted to do the required section on obstetrics. He flees the country and meets other colored people who hope to create a united body to work for their betterment. For personal reasons, he rejects their overtures and returns to the U.S., where he becomes an up-and-coming politician married to a wealthy, well-connected woman. After numerous setbacks, he reconnects with the other colored peoples who have a plan for a better future that will be developed over the coming fifteen years. There is, though, a disagreement, which, not resolved with in novel, between those who believe in violence as a means and those who reject it.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)} } @booklet {535, title = {Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil}, year = {1920}, note = {

\“The Comet\” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind\’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.

}, month = {1920}, publisher = {Harcourt, Brace and Howe}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an \“Introduction\” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt

Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story \“The Comet\” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind\’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem \“A Hymn to the Peoples\” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)}, editor = {W. E. B. Du Bois} } @booklet {460, title = {Five Generations Hence}, year = {1916}, note = {

Rpt. ed. and annotated by the editor with notes on 96-102 in Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writings of Lillian Jones Horace. Ed. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev (College Station: Texas A\&M University Press, 2013), 1-96.\ Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 176-88 with an editor\’s note on 175-76.\ 

}, month = {1916}, publisher = {Ptd. by Dotson-Jones Company}, address = {Fort Worth, TX}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Mostly on race relations in the U. S. but includes a vision of a future Africa that is civilized and prosperous. The eutopia is brought about by African-Americans returning to Africa.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Mrs. Lillian B. Jones (1880-1965)} } @booklet {9386, title = {Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel}, year = {1911}, note = {

Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a \“Foreword to the 1989 Edition\” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an \“Introduction\” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii).\ 

}, month = {1911}, publisher = {A. C. McClurg}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter \“Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece\” in his The Souls of Black Folks.\ .

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)} } @booklet {10248, title = {"The Princess Steel"}, howpublished = {PMLA}, volume = {130.3}, year = {1908}, month = {[1908-10?]/2015}, pages = {822-29, with an {\textquotedblleft}Introduction{\textquotedblright} by Adrienne Brown and Britt Rusert (819-21)}, abstract = {

Fantastic story that is a critique of capitalism, trust building, and the exploitation of African Americans and Africans.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1858-1963)}, editor = {adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) and Britt Rusert} } @booklet {141, title = {Light Ahead for the Negroes}, year = {1904}, note = {

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 335-77.

}, month = {1904}, pages = {vi + 132 pp. }, publisher = {Grafton Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Set in 2006 in an improved but still segregated South, which is presented as a much better situation for African-Americans. Very paternalistic attitudes by whites, so much so that there may be an element of satire. Unions opened to Negroes, and, in separate meetings, to women; the unions train the men, and Schools of Domestic Science were opened to professionally train the women. The first part of the work is a description of the situation of the black at the beginning of the twentieth century (21-98). The economy has been partially nationalized. Blacks and whites \“naturally\” associate with their own people. Southern cotton plantations bought, broken up, and re-sold to African-Americans at low prices at which time they are given assistance and training. Technologically advanced with electric cars that run on dedicated elevated tracks. In Adam vs. Ape-Man and Ethiopia. Illus. New York: Ptd. by J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1931, he argues that American Negroes are descended from Ethiopians, which were the first civilization in Africa.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {E[dward] A[ustin] Johnson (1860-1944)} } @booklet {103, title = {"Dorlan{\textquoteright}s Plan. (Sequel to {\textquoteright}Unfettered{\textquoteright}.) A Dissertation on the Race Problem"}, howpublished = {Unfettered. A Novel}, year = {1902}, note = {

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1971.\ 

}, month = {1902}, pages = {217-76}, publisher = {Orion Publishing Co.}, address = {Nashville, TN}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Dorlan Warthall is an extremely wealthy African American who intends to use his wealth to help African Americans and the eutopia is presented as a fictionalized proposal for solving racial problems in the United States, which will be achieved by establishing an organization that will encourage and develop education, ownership of land, political rights, and better housing, among other things. Unfettered provides the background that makes the proposal possible. See also 1899 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom\’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life\’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders\’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933)} } @booklet {6963, title = {"Of One Blood. Or, the Hidden Self"}, howpublished = {Colored American Magazine }, volume = {6.1 - 11}, year = {1902}, note = {

Rpt. in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 439-621; as One Blood. London: X Press, 1996 [This edition says that the serial started in March 1901, but the serial that started in March 1901 is one of Hopkin\’s many nonfiction serials]; under the original title, Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, 2021, with \“Introduction to the Novel: Occult Blood,\” by Nisi Shawl (xi-xiii), a note \“About the Author\” (181-182),\”Suggested Discussion Questions for Classroom Use\” (183-186), and \“Suggested Further Readings of Fiction (187-191); in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 240-323; separately as Of One Blood, or the Hidden Self. London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 21-221, with \“A New Introduction\” by Patty Nicole Johnson (14-17), Further Reading (18-19), \“Extract from Hagar\’s Daughter\” by Hopkins (223-241); and as of One Blood. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with \“Introduction: The Afritopian Cryptopolis\” (xv-xxxv) by Minister Faust where he rejects the word Afrofuturism.

}, month = { November 1902 - November 1903}, pages = {29-40; 102-13; 191-200; 264-72; 339-48; 423-32; 492-501; 580-86; 643-47; 726-31; 802-07}, abstract = {

Lost race novel with the first part focusing on passing as white and includes (Chapters XIV - XVIII) a eutopian hidden city in Ethiopia which continues the high traditions of African civilization.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Pauline [Elizabeth] Hopkins (1859-1930)} } @booklet {9, title = {Imperium in Imperio}, year = {1899}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, with a \“Preface by Hugh M. Gloster (iii-viii); with the subtitle, A Study of the Negro Race Problem. New York: Arno Press, 1969; and with a \“Preface\” by A.J. Verdelle (vii-xiii), an \“Introduction\” by Cornel West (xv-xvii), \“Chronology of the Precocious Sutton E. Griggs\” (xix-xx), and a \“Reading Group Guide\” ([179-81]). New York: The Modern Library, 2003; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 157-232.\ 

}, month = {1899}, publisher = {Editor Publishing Company}, address = {Cincinnati, OH}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Black state in Texas called Imperium in Imperio with a government parallel to the U. S. government, although with some structural differences. Mostly on the problems of African-Americans and conflict among them over the use of violence, but there is some on the new government. This has long been considered the first utopia by an African-American author, and within a narrow definition of utopia, it still is. See also 1902 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom\’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life\’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders\’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933)} } @booklet {9401, title = {Four Girls at Cottage City}, year = {1895}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: James H. Earle, Publishing, 1898 which is rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, with an \“Introduction\” by Deborah E. McDowell (xxvii-xxxviii).\ 

}, month = {1895}, publisher = {Continental Printing Co. }, address = {Providence, RI}, abstract = {

Mostly a sentimental novel, but includes a chapter, \“The Dream that Saved a Soul,\” that recounts a visit to a eutopian afterlife based on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\’s popular Gates novels (see 1883 Phelps).\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Emma D[unham] Kelley-Hawkins (1863-1938)} } @booklet {8413, title = {After Death: or, Disembodiment of Man. The Location, Topography, and Scenery of the Spiritual Universe; Its Inhabitants, Their Customs, Habits, Modes of Existence; Sex After Death; Marriage in the World of Souls; the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, Its Fearful Penalties, Etc.}, year = {1868}, note = {

2nd ed. corr. and enl. Boston, MA: Author, 1868; 3rd ed. as After Death: the Disembodiment of Man. Boston, MA, 1869; 5th ed. [published before the 4th ed.] Boston, MA: Randolph Publishing Co., 1870, with a \“Preface\” by Freeman B. Dowd. Rpt. under the author\’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Boston, MA: Colby \& Rich, 1873; rpt. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886; rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1961.\ 

}, month = {[1868]}, publisher = {Ptd. for the author}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Detailed description of the racially separate heavens with the white heaven the highest but with the souls in heaven evolving from their situation at death to higher states. African American author who is thought to have established the first U.S. Rosicrucian order. On Randolph, see John Patrick Deveney,\ Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black America Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997 with a \“Foreword\” by Franklin Rosemont (xiii-xx).

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {[Paschal Beverly] [Randolph] (1825-75)} } @booklet {7447, title = {The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light \& Darkness. Or, the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abado}, year = {1867}, note = {

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.

}, month = {1867}, publisher = {J. Nicholas, Printer}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Christian allegory reflecting the battle between good and evil on earth and in the Celestial Country from the creation onwards into a future where good wins.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Lorenzo D[ow] Blackson (b. 1817)} } @booklet {9647, title = {Blake: or the Huts of America}, year = {1859}, note = {

Originally published in part as \“Blake: Or the Huts of America. A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba.\” The Anglo-African Magazine 1.1 - 7 (January - July 1859): 20-29 [Chapters 28-30], 37-43 [Chapters 1-5], 69-79 [Chapters 6-9], 104-114 [Chapters 10-12], 129-39 [Chapters 13-16], 160-72 [Chapters 17-20], 192-203 [Chapters 21-23] and then with all but the last chapters, which are lost, in The Weekly Anglo-American (November 1861 - May 1862).\ For a critical edition, see Blake or, The Huts of America. A Corrected Edition. Ed. Jerome McGann: Harvard University Press, 2017, with the editor\’s \“Introduction\” (ix-xxxii) and an \“Editor\’s Note\” (xxxiii-xxxviii).\ Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New \& Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 48-143. Excerpts are published in Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Ed. Robert S. Levine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 273-314.

}, month = {1859/1970}, publisher = {Beacon Press}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Much of the book is on the situation in Africa, Cuba, and North America, there are insurrections, failed and successful, by slaves and the published part of the novel ends with the results of the successful insurrection and the outlines of a nation of blacks, which the author had argued for in his other works. Given the trajectory at the end of the novel, the lost chapters may have made the utopia more explicit.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Martin R[obison] Delany (1812-85)} }