The Regression Test / Wole Talabi. The Comet / W.E.B. Du Bois -- ¡lan Vital / K. Tempest Bradford -- The Orb / Tara Campbell -- Blake, or The Huts of America / Martin R. Delany -- The Floating City of Pengimbang / Michelle F. Goddard -- The New Colossuses / Harambee K. Grey-Sun -- Imperium in Imperio / Sutton E. Griggs -- Seven Thieves / Emmalia Harrington -- Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self / Pauline Hopkins -- Space Traitors / Walidah Imarisha -- The Line of Demarcation / Patty Nicole Johnson -- Light Ahead for the Negro / Edward Johnson -- e-race / Russell Nichols -- Giant Steps / Russell Nichols -- Almost Too Good to Be True / Temi Oh -- You May Run On / Megan Pindling -- Suffering Inside, But Still I Soar / Sylvie Soul -- The Pox Party / Lyle Stiles -- The Regression Test / Wole Talabi.
Summary:
Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial created their living dystopia.
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