Black science fiction or black speculation fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

, and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 genres where people of the African diaspora take part and/or are depicted. In the late 1990s a number of cultural critics began to use the term Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism

Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise,...

 to depict a cultural and literary movement of thinkers and artists of the African diaspora who were using science, technology, and science fiction as means of exploring the black experience.

Writers

Writers such as Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany

Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., also known as "Chip" is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society.His science fiction novels include Babel-17, The Einstein...

, Ken Sibanda , Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.- Background :Butler...

, Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...

, Nnedi Okorafor, and Minister Faust  are among the writers who have worked in science fiction.

The Carl Brandon Society

Carl Brandon Society

The Carl Brandon Society is a group originating within the science fiction community "dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy and horror.....

 is a group originating in the science fiction community dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Publishers that specialize in Black science fiction

Black Science Fiction Society - home to Genesis Science Fiction Anthology and Genesis Science Fiction Magazine.
http://www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com/

daathrekh Publishing African American Science Fiction, African American Speculative Fiction, Black Superheroes

Black Sci Fi youtube channel

Nubian Sci Fi galaxy African American Science Fiction, African American Speculative Fiction

http://www.youtube.com/user/NUBIANSCIFIGALAXY Nubian Sci Fi Galaxy Black Sci Fi Youtube channel]

See also

• Afrofuturism
  Afrofuturism
  Afrofuturism is an emergent literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, Afrocentricity, and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to critique not only the present-day dilemmas of people of color, but also to revise,...
  
  
• Dark Matter (series)
  Dark Matter (series)
  Dark Matter is an anthology series of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stories and essays produced by people of African descent. The editor of the series is Sheree Thomas. The first book in the series, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora won the 2001 World...
  
   edited by Sheree Thomas
  Sheree Thomas
  Sheree Thomas also credited as Sheree R. Thomas and Sheree Renée Thomas is a writer, book editor and publisher whose Dark Matter collected the works of some of the best African American Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy writers. Authors such as Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Charles R...
  
  
• GENESIS An Anthology of Black Science Fiction - www.BlackScienceFictionSociety.com
• GENESIS Science Fiction Magazine - www.BlackScienceFictionSociety.com
• List of black superheroes

External links

• Black Science Fiction Society - BlackScienceFictionSociety.com was created to highlight, celebrate and develop black science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy & horror. BlackScienceFictionSociety.com social network is also home to Genesis Science Fiction Anthology and Genesis Science Fiction Magazine.
• Black Sci-Fi Website - Black Sci-Fi is the premier website for up-to-date information on sci-fi news, movies, people, and events happening in the sci-fi hemisphere and its impact on the Black community.
• Black to the Future: A Black Science Fiction Festival (June 11–13, 2004)
• Daathrekh Publishing - speculative fiction from the African Centered perspective.
• Think GalactiCon (July 13–15, 2007)
• Invisible Universe Documentary a history of blackness in speculative fiction (a work-in-progress)
• Invisible Universe Blog - blog for the Invisible Universe Documentary
• Carl Brandon Society website
• OctaviaButler.net; a fansite which includes rare content by and about Octavia Butler.
• AFRO Sci-Fi; Afrocentric Sci Fi links and news