"One of the ways speculative fiction can work against racism and [colonization] is to re-imagine our past, altering the power dynamics that we are accustomed to in order to illuminate hidden histories and silenced voices." -P. Djeli Clark ("How to Spite a Racist Troll: Support Black Dreams")
"Speculative thought is important, and unless you are doing speculative thought you are not doing any thought at all." -C.L.R. James ("How I Wrote the Black Jacobins")
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My Soul to Keep by 
Kindred by 
Lilith's Brood by 
The Salt Roads by 
Octavia's Brood by Black Speculative Fiction is an umbrella term for speculative texts with an emphasis on the people and culture of the African Diaspora. It is referred to as "Black” and not African, African-American, Haitian, etc. to show that the label includes ALL people of the Diaspora and places their culture, experiences and THEM at the forefront of these imaginative works. For a people who have been told constantly that they have no history or future, that they can never be super or a hero, and that their very existence is a nightmare, Black Speculative Fiction allows them to imagine themselves outside of what the world has told them they must be. Black Speculative Fiction challenges global anti-Blackness and forces readers, Black or otherwise, to accept the polylithic nature of Blackness. Click HERE to read more
Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction by
Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin find themselves in a public argument about the nature of SF? This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that challenges readers, viewers, teachers, and scholars, and then as one that is often itself challenged (as the authors in the collection do).
Contemporary Speculative Fiction by
Speculative fiction has a long and progressive history... This volume in the Critical Insights series addresses the crossover genre of contemporary speculative fiction through a diverse set of texts and through multiple methodologies.
The Things That Fly in the Night by
The Things That Fly in the Nightnbsp;explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of thenbsp;soucouyant, or Old Hag--an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night's darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women's "proper" place and behaviors in society at large.nbsp; Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.
A.I.-Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Altered Carbon (2018) - Netflix Series
Avatar (2009)
The Book of Eli (2010)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Black Panther (2018)
Catwoman (2004)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
The Defenders (2017) - Netflix Series
Gattaca (1997)
Guardians of the Galaxy films (2014, 2017)
The Matrix films (1999, 2003)
Luke Cage (2016, 2018) - Netflix Series
Star Trek (1966-69, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998,
2002, 2009, 2013, 2016) - TV Series and Films
Surrogates (2009)
Vixen: The Movie (2017)
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Xmen movies (2000, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2016)
