In honor of Black History Month, we're recommending these fantasy and sci-fi novels written by Black authors.

It isn’t like Octave Estelle Butler is some unknown author. Butler, who wrote from the 70s through the early 2000s, and died in 2006, is an absolute giant in the field of science fiction. She was ...

When Ytasha Womack published “Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture” in 2013, she helped introduce mainstream audiences to a movement that had been quietly flourishing for decades.

Dr. Omotoyosi Odukomaiya specializes in Black science fiction and women’s literature, with a teaching focus at Hope College on American ethnic literature, Black science fiction and women’s literature.

For fans of: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and a ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22 nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she ...