--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hayden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Jesse Miller" > <aaaclub_services@> wrote: > > > > The idea that putting black characters in a story blocks > publication > > is distressing to me becasue this is NOT true. > > > (Read it from a guy who was there > > The Road to Black Science Fiction > > http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/johnfaucette3/road.html > > Note these quotes > > But before that time arrived, when the sword and sorcery genre was > big, I wrote one about a swordsman who had purple hair and purple > skin. I called it THE AGE OF RUIN. Why did he have purple skin? > Because it couldn't be black. > > AGE OF RUIN satisfied the rebel within me ... for a while. It was > evident the field was totally white and white oriented. I began to be > dissatisfied with that. It was always a white man went to a planet > and kicked the butts of the grey, brown, red, blue or green aliens. > > In my ignorance I thought it was racism. I told Donald A. Wollheim I > thought he was publishing racist material. I realize now it was > simply economic self-interest. You don't publish what you don't think > there is a market for—especially if it's believed publishing black > subject matter and/or authors will drive away or alienate the audience >
Do you think it is worth writing SF with black main characters to a Black audience???
