for sci-fi by a black author, i cant say enough good things about samuel delany's "dhalgren". i even suspect the city is at least somewhat based on detroit because they mention other local midwest cities and dont mention it. great book, and not really strictly "future" related....
tom ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:17:13 -0500 > > > > >came across this on Amazon but then I went to the publisher page > >Visions of the Third MillenniumBlack Science Fiction Novelists... $21.95 >Visions of the Third MillenniumBlack Science Fiction Novelists Write the >Future by Sandra M. Grayson >In Visions of the Third Millennium: Black Science Fiction Novelists Write >the Future, Sandra M. Grayson analyzes how writers of African descent use >the codes of science fiction to explore race and gender, myth and language, >slavery ... study is concerned with how Black science fiction writers >interweave the memories of enslaved ... > >sorry, that's all it had. I tried to find more but the next page resulted >in an error >still, this looks good > >MEK > > ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com
