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Jul 29, 2020 · Nnedi Okorafor. Okorafor is an author whose talent spreads in all areas of SFF. From Akata Witch to the Binti series, she has a strong presence in this field and isn’t going anywhere. She has also won awards from Hugo, Nebula, Lodestar Awards, Locus, and World Fantasy.
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- N.K. Jemisin. Jemisin is a three-time Hugo award winner and is the first writer ever to win the award three consecutive times for science fiction and fantasy.
- C.L. Polk. Polk is a Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning author of fantasy fiction. Polk’s Kingston Cycle series, beginning with Witchmark, won the World Fantasy Award.
- Victor LaValle. Victor LaValle is an accomplished author of fantasy and horror fiction novels, novellas, and short stories. LaValle has been the recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Shirley Jackson Award, American Book Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship.
- Megan Giddings. Megan Gidding’s work is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, and Shirley Jackson. In other words, a winning combination. Publishing her first novel, Lakewood, in 2020, Giddings quickly became an award-winning author.
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- Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Legendborn is one of the most stunning books of recent years. Bree Matthews enters a secret society she discovers is connected to her mother’s mysterious death.
- I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea. Jamison Shea’s Young Adult novel is a fantastical read focused on Black girl excellence in a racist institution—it’s also one of the best books of 2023.
- Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood. If you’re looking to read more gothics by Black authors, Lauren Blackwood’s Young Adult novel is a perfect book to add to your list.
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon. The Deep, written by the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, is ostensibly about the African slave women tossed overboard during the Middle Passage but in this short read, they are immortalized as mermaids in a mesmerizing underwater society.
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. Essun comes home one day to find her husband has killed their son and kidnapped their daughter. She must journey through a broken and war-torn world to find and save her daughter, all during the collapse of the all-powerful empire that has ruled over the world for a thousand years.
- Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi. Set in ’92 Los Angeles, Ella has what she calls a "Thing" — an ability to see things that haven't yet happened. Her older brother Kev wants to protect Ella from herself — but after he ends up incarcerated, she struggles with her ability to confront the past and the future, knowing that a revolution might be the only way toward progress.
- Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree Thomas. This anthology gathers fiction and essays from classic writers of Black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction like Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Walter Mosley, and more.
- Dawn by Octavia E. Butler. The first novel in the Xenogenesis series, Dawn, introduces us to Lilith, a woman whose son and husband died in the fires that destroyed Earth.
Nov 13, 2017 · The Forever Tree. The Forever Tree is a short film described by its creators as “an Indiana Jones like female driven adventure story, steeped in black history, about family, love and the pursuit ...
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Feb 1, 2019 · Raybearer. By Jordan Ifueko. The Portalist named Nigerian-American writer Jordan Ifueko’s debut fantasy novel, Raybearer, as one of the best debut SFF novels ever. The young adult fantasy follows Tarisai, a young, lonely girl who has been raised in seclusion for a purpose she will grow to defy.
Jan 30, 2020 · Also, it’s sometimes difficult to understand the history of black science fiction without reference to the history of black fantasy. Keeping in mind how inextricably the two genres are interwoven, I include works of fantasy in this history of black science fiction crash course reading list, though I’m careful to note their presence with a ...
