Science fiction sometimes does; Black American writing almost always has" (35 ... a black/white binary would be to challenge the representational power of whiteness as the symbol of humanity per se, ...

Science fiction allows filmmakers to critique the current social paradigm by extrapolating it to its distant but logical ...

Kurt Vonnegut during his Iowa Writers’ Workshop era. These fascinating Afrofuturism novels from authors like Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead are a great way to discover more about this genre.

Some modern science fiction and fantasy films, books, comics and TV shows portray a postracial utopia — sometimes dystopia — ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

Many consider Butler, who passed away in 2006, to be the mother of Afrofuturism, which NPR defines as, “an open-ended genre combining science fiction, fantasy and history to imagine a liberated ...

Ghana’s first science fiction film, “The B.A.T.U. Project ... the film's exceptional quality despite a limited budget, Best Afrofuturism Film - recognizing the film's innovative portrayal ...

The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire last week but suffered ''minimal damage,'' according to a statement on the cemetery's web site.