booklist.

[delux_vivens]

So it seems like we might as well start a booklist thread here. You know, books by and about POC in sci fi and fantasy. And maybe some stuff about race and gender and representation, as well. I'll add this post to the memories so it can be an ongoing reference

Comments

[nnaloh]

It has a sequel, too.

Have you seen Carl Brandon this weekend?

[badger2305]

You might have some fun looking at the award-winners and shortlisted works from the Carl Brandon Society:

http://carlbrandon.org/blog/2006/05/winners-of-first-carl-brandon-society.html

[rambleman]

there is also the very excellent So Long Been Dreaming, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan. an anthology by authors of color, specifically trying to highlight post-colonial SF/F

[nnaloh]

Tropic of Night, by Michael Gruber

The Black Insider, by Dambudzo Marechera

The Kappa Child, by Hiromi Goto

The Water of Possibility, by Hiromi Goto

When Fox is a Thousand, by Larissa Lai

Salt-Fish Girl, by Larissa Lai

Air, by Geoff Ryman

Terminal Cafe, by Ian McDonald

Middle Passage, by Charles Johnson

Dark Matter, vols. 1 & 2, edited by Sheree Thomas

_Whale Rider_ and _Sky Dancer,_ both by Witi Ihimaera

Mindscape, by Andrea Hairston

Zahrah the Windseeker, by Nnedimma Okorafor-Mbachu

Mumbo Jumbo, by Ishmael Reed

Stories by people of colour, not necessarily dealing with race:

Anything by Karin Lowachee

Anything by Owl Goingback

Anything by S.P. Somtow

Anything by comics artist Ho Che Anderson

Anything by Brenda Clough

Anything by Ted Chiang

[delux_vivens]

nalo,

can you email me at delux_vivens AT livejournal DOT com?

thx!

d.

[nnaloh]

I'll do so. Seems to me that I tried the last time you asked, but I didn't get a response. But I could be misremembering that.

Book list

[ebonbird]

This is wonderful.

Thanks so much for sharing!

[no_absolutes]

i would even say The President's Daughter by Barbara Chase-Riboud. there's science in the historical fiction. and of course, comics by Milestone Media, continued with Static Shock in DC comics.