For a Black Writer, Sci-Fi Offers a Reboot of Society

Science and Creativity from Studio 360

Mar 7, 201606:05Arts

Few readers of science fiction can name any African-American writers in the genre apart from Samuel Delaney and Octavia Butler. Black authors, however, have been contributing to sci-fi since its inception. Carl Hancock R...

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