2007-01-05 08:36:12 · 6 answers · asked by sharimarshall2004 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
My goodness! Take a look at an author named Octavia E. Butler. She is one on the greatest si-fi/fantasy authors ever. African American or otherwise!
She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction/fantasy writer to receive MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
ENJOY!
2007-01-05 08:55:22 · answer #1 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read any of these authors, but I found this list of African-American science fiction/fantasy writers at http://www.readersadvice.com/readadv/000345.html:
Barnes, Steven: Charisma
Barnes, Steven: Lion's Blood series
Butler, Octavia: Parables series
Dark Matter (edited by Sheree R. Thomas)
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (edited by Sheree R. Thomas) Due, Tananarive: The Between
Due, Tananarive: The Black Rose
Faust, Minister: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Hopkinson, Nalo: Midnight Robber
Hopkinson, Nalo: Skin Folk
Sakers, Don: Dance for the Ivory Madonna
Saunders, Charles: Imaro series
2007-01-05 12:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by starlightfading 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Walter Dean Myers once collaborated on a book called Shadow of the Red Moon with his son. It was not so much dragons and wizards, but there is a unicorn.
2007-01-05 11:31:12 · answer #3 · answered by Huerter0 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ralph is right-on... Octavia Butler rules!
2007-01-05 12:13:32 · answer #4 · answered by Ms. Switch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i once read a book about african fariy tales,
like 1 was about a tricky spide who tricked every one.
like dozen more there one for each culture
2007-01-05 08:41:33 · answer #5 · answered by Buddha Boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Nalo Hopkinson, though she's not American, but her books deal with Caribbean magic.... you might enjoy the difference.
2007-01-05 08:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by JStueart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋