"With topics ranging from slavery to space travel, the impressive breadth of this anthology makes for a well-rounded survey. Readers, writers, and scholars alike will find great value here." — Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewA deluxe edition of new writing and neglected perspectives.Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial created their living dystopia.With a foreword by Alex Award-winning novelist Temi Oh, an introduction by Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, author of Visions of the Third Millennium: Black Science Fiction Novelists Write the Future (2003), and invaluable promotion and editorial support from Tia Ross and the Black Writers Collective and more, this latest offering in the Flame Tree Gothic fantasy series focuses on an area of science fiction which has not received the attention it deserves. Many of the themes in Sci-fi reveal the world as it is to others, show us how to improve it, and give voice to the many different expressions of a future for humankind.The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.Table of Contents:An Empty, Hollow Interview by James BeamonThe Comet by W.E.B. Du BoisÉlan Vital by K. Tempest BradfordThe Orb by Tara CampbellBlake, or The Huts of America by Martin R. DelanyThe Floating City of Pengimbang by Michelle F. GoddardThe New Colossuses by Harambee K. Grey-SunImperium in Imperio by Sutton E. GriggsSeven Thieves by Emmalia HarringtonOf One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self by Pauline HopkinsSpace Traitors by Walidah ImarishaThe Line of Demarcation by Patty Nicole JohnsonLight Ahead for the Negro by Edward Johnsone-race by Russell NicholsGiant Steps by Russell NicholsAlmost Too Good to Be True by Temi OhYou May Run On by Megan PindlingSuffering Inside, But Still I Soar by Sylvie SoulThe Pox Party by Lyle Stiles
