Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory

Contents
Preface: “All At One Point” Conveys the Point, Period: Or, Black Science Fiction Is Bursting Out All Over
Introductions: “Dark Matter” Matters
	Imaginative Encounters • Hortense J. Spillers
	Black to the Future: Afro-Futurism 1.0 • Mark Dery
	“On the Other Side of the Glass”: The Television Roots of Black Science Fiction • Marleen S. Barr
Essays: The Blackness of Outer Space Ficti onas Blast(off ) from the Past
	Becoming Animal in Black Women’s Science Fiction • Madhu Dubey
	“God Is Change”: Persuasion and Pragmatic Utopianism in Octavia E. Butler’s Earthseed Novels • Ellen Peel
	Tananarive Due and Nalo Hopkinson Revisit the Reproduction of Mothering: Legacies of the Past and Strategies for the Future • Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan
	Close Encounters between Traditional and Nontraditional Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora Sing the Time Travel Blues • Jennifer E. Henton
	Beyond the History We Know: Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Nisi Shawl, and Jarla Tangh Rethink Science Fiction Tradition • De Witt Douglas Kilgore
	Responses to De Witt Douglas Kilgore
		Bubbling Champagne Power Trip • Nisi Shawl
		“Of Course People Can Fly” • Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
		Carla Johnson/Jarla Tangh: A Close Encounter with My Pseudonym • Jarla Tangh
Stories: Techno/Magic Sistahs Are Not the Sistahs from Another Planet
	The Book of Martha • Octavia E. Butler
	Double Consciousness • Andrea Hairston
	Dynamo Hum • Nisi Shawl
	The Ferryman • Sheree R. Thomas
	Herbal • Nalo Hopkinson
Commentaries: Kindred Spirit
	On Octavia E. Butler • Tananarive Due
	Can a Brother Get Some Love? Sociobiology in Images of African-American Sensuality in Contemporary Cinema: Or, Why We’d Better the Hell Claim Vin Diesel as Our Own • Steven Barnes
	Conversation with Samuel R. Delany about Sex, Gender, Race, Writing—and Science Fiction • Samuel R. Delany and Carl Freedman
	Black “Science Faction”: An Interview with Kevin Willmott, Director and Writer of CSA, The Confederate States of America • Kevin Willmott and Marleen S. Barr
	Octavia’s Healing Power: A Tribute to the Late Great Octavia E. Butler • Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Afterword: The Big Bang: Or, the Inception of Scholarship about Black Women Science Fiction Writers • Marleen S. Barr
Response to the Afterword
	Connecting Metamorphoses: Italo Calvino’s Mrs. Ph(i)NKo and I,Dr. Ph(d)SalvagGIo • Ruth Salvaggio
Notes on Contributors