Several Colors of Planets Still Available for Edited Collections

My friend Isiah Lavender’s edited collection Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction is available now at Amazon. $54 is a lot of money, but at least put in a request at your local library!

Here’s a table of contents:

Introduction: Isiah Lavender,”Coloring Science Fiction”

Part I: Black Planets

Lisa Yaszek, “The Bannekerade: Genius, Madness, and Magic in Black Science Fiction”

De Witt Douglas Kilgore, “‘The Best is Yet to Come': Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Reform Afrofuturism”

Gerry Canavan, “Far Beyond the Star Pit: Samuel R. Delany”

Isiah Lavender, “Digging Deep: Ailments of Difference in Octavia Butler’s ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night'”

Marleen S. Barr, “The Laugh of Anansi: Why Science Fiction Is Pertinent to Black Children’s Literature Pedagogy”

Part II: Brown Planets

Grace L. Dillon, “Haint Stories Rooted in Conjure Science: Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Andrea Hairston’s Redwood and Wildfire

Patrick B. Sharp, “Questing for an Indigenous Future: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony as Indigenous SF”

M. Elizabeth Ginway, “Monteiro Lobato’s O presidente negro [The Black President]: Race and Gender in the Corporate State in Brazil”

Lysa M. Rivera, “Mestizaje and Heterotopia in Ernest Hogan’s High Aztech”

Matthew Goodwin, “Virtual Reality at the Border of Migration, Race and Labor”

Malisa Kurtz, “A Dis-(Orient)ation: Race, Technoscience, and The Windup Girl”

Edward James, “Reflections on ‘Yellow, Black, Metal, and Tentacled,’ Twenty-Two Years On”

Edward James, “Yellow, Black, Metal and Tentacled: the Race Question in American Science Fiction”

Coda

Robin Anne Reid, “‘The Wild Unicorn Herd Check-In': The Politics of Race in Science Fiction Fandom”