Inclusion and Representation in Mainstream Fiction

Why it Matters

Cover Art for “Artifact of the Dawn” by Grayson Bell. Artwork by Scott Richard.

I have always been an avid reader, since the day when I was four years old and a little phonics segment on Sesame Street clicked with me. By the time I was six, I was reading full-length novels, like A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Since I mostly read science fiction and fantasy, there was always a diverse cast of…