The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by André M. Carrington Viking Books for Young Readers We wanted to celebrate ourselves

We wanted to celebrate ourselves as readers would instantly recognize the names on the list and what they mean

Will you answer its call

We know this because blood talks to blood

raising our awareness of how those who are often dismissed have the knowledge to shift the landscape of our world

The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by André M. Carrington Viking Books for Young Readers We wanted to celebrate ourselvesA cutting edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fictionfrom Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award winning Black authors. Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their