I am an avid reader and aspiring fiction writer looking for fantasy and science fiction novels that heavily feature black characters. If you could list the title and author of the work, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
2006-09-06 09:25:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Octavia Butler wrote some. If you're looking action/adventure, try Stevern Barnes, who has also co-written with Niven and Pournelle. Friday, by Robert Heinlein, was likely dark-skinned although she had ancestry from all over - which is one of the points Mr. Heinlein was trying to make. I don't remember a description of skin color, but I always thought of Manuel O'Kelly Davis (Moon is a Harsh Mistress) as dark-skinned. Spider Robinson's Telempath. They're out there, but few of them make a big deal out of the fact that they're black.
Most of the ones that are out there are pretty low key about it. If you're looking for characters who make their blackness a point of pride, that's kind of playing against the demographic appeal, for the same reason that science fiction where the protagonists make their whiteness a point of pride doesn't sell. The folks who buy fantasy and sf aren't particularly receptive to racism, whether it's white against black or vice versa. It rubs most of us the wrong way. It's okay for the folks to be any color, creed, either sex, either sexual orientation - but when they start acting like anybody who doesn't share that characteristic is ipso facto less than they are, most of us will put the book in the trash and make it a point never to buy anything by that author again, and maybe not from that publisher. The one book I can remember that violated this precept was Farnham's Freehold, and that's because the character who makes a point of pride of being black is pretty unsavory. The author was trying to hold a mirror up to racism (it was written as a juvenile early in the civil rights era), and so needed a character who was proud of their black skin in the same way that a Klansman is proud of his white skin.
2006-09-06 11:47:15 · answer #1 · answered by Searchlight Crusade 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Artemis chicken fantasy, Sci-Fi or Supernatural? fantasy youthful person? specific website-turner? for specific. exciting specified characters? specific around the age of 17? no longer rather, yet you may think of he became into older (and the different characters are older (supernatural age)) specified plot? actually specified. clever too. complicated? no longer possibly, no Romance? no longer 'til later. It starts out as hate, yet then turns right into a love-hate element. Comedy? no longer possibly, there are some humorous bits for the duration of the 7 (quickly to be 8) e book series.
2016-12-12 03:44:33 · answer #2 · answered by tollefson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The books are are looking for is under the genre called 'dark fantasy.' On some paperback novels, it will say 'dark fantasy' on the back page, or on the spine of the book, towards the top.
2006-09-07 13:23:55 · answer #3 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try books by Octavia Butler, Sheri S Tepper and Minister Faust.
2006-09-06 10:50:59 · answer #4 · answered by Rose D 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are Star Wars books about Mace Windoo. Also, there is a racist book called the The Turner Diaries but it is written by a white supremacist. Umm, I will get back to you.
I just found this:
http://www.cdforum.org/bttf/
Seems interesting.
Try a google search of "black science fiction."
That turned up a lot of stuff.
2006-09-06 09:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Try this author. She is great! Some of my favorite sci-fi novels.
Octavia E. Butler
2006-09-06 09:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by Ralph 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Waaaaaayyyy waaaayyayyyyy out in the far far distant universe.
Girl, puleeeze. You know black folks are not trying to write sci-fi. Although I wish they would 'cause I love sci-fi. The 4400, Star-Trek, The Dead Zone (Johnny's sidekick is black), Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits. Did u ever see Avery Brooks on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? He was the second best Star Trek Captain. Anywhoo, I hardly ever see black folks on these shows.
2006-09-06 09:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by treasures320 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋
"Matrix: Revolutions" was chock FULL of great black characters...wasn't it?....It kicked @ss!!!
2006-09-06 09:27:50 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
try....zane
2006-09-06 09:27:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋