5 Black Women Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors You Should Read
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4 min readFeb 20, 2022
Like many other genres, speculative fiction was long a realm of white, male authors. The Golden Age of Science Fiction produced masters in the craft — Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, et al — but very little of the work was produced by women or people of color. When the New Wave of science fiction emerged in the 1960s things began to change and voices began to diversify. Then, in the 1970s, Octavia E…
