DARK MATTER II: A CENTURY OF SPECULATIVE FICTION FROM THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA (forthcoming, Warner Aspect hardcover, 2002)
Call for Papers
DARK MATTER: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
(Warner Aspect, hardcover, July 2000) was the first collection dedicated
to speculative fiction by black writers. This landmark anthology united
the works of established, emerging, and new authors and received
critical acclaim. DARK MATTER II will continue this groundbreaking work
by introducing new fiction writers from throughout the African
Diaspora. The collection will also include an additional selection of
critical essays illuminating the contributions of black writers to
speculative fiction and the role of black speculative visions to the
Afrodiasporic literary canon. Works that address black speculative
contributions to other media (film, music, visual arts) will also be
considered.
CONTENT (ESSAYS): The first volume of DARK MATTER concluded with
several original essays and reprints discussing black speculative
fiction. For example, Samuel R. Delany wrote about “Racism and Science
Fiction.” Charles R. Saunders discussed “Why Blacks Should Read (and
Write) Science Fiction.” Walter Mosley discussed his long love of the
genre and his hopes for an “explosion” of black speculative fiction in
“Black to the Future.” Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky offered a hypertext
work entitled “Yet Do I Wonder,” discussing the intersection between sf
and dj culture. Octavia E. Butler offered readers the last word in “The
Monophobic Response,” an examination of society’s age-old impulse to
“create aliens.” I would like to continue these discussions with other
works that illuminate the contributions of blacks to the speculative
fiction genre.
DEADLINE: Monday, April 30, 2001. Warner Aspect Books will publish the
anthology in hardcover in 2002.
TERMS: Monetary payment will be offered to those writers whose work is
selected for publication. The fees to contributors begin at $250.
Contributors will share royalties with the editor.
Please send queries and submissions to: Sheree R. Thomas, 765 Amsterdam
Avenue 3C, New York, NY 10025-5707 USA. To request a copy of the
complete guidelines, please send email to: esmarth@banet.net
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Sheree R. Thomas
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
http://www.twbookmark.com/books/19/0446525839/index.html
http://aalbc.com/dark1.htm
Clarion West Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Workshop
http://www.sff.net/clarionwest/
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