The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories by André M. Carrington
English | 2025 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction—from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning Black authors
20 mind-blowing, horror-strewn, weird, and woke tales celebrate Black identity, community, and imagination
Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their careers, is conjuring up a very real renaissance.
Edited by SF-expert andré carrington, and including Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winners alongside emerging and experimental voices, The Black Fantastic showcases the artistry of these breakout literary stars and celebrates the diversity of their talents.
Including Afrofuturist science fiction, weird and fantastic tales, horror and the paranormal, apocalyptic lyricism, time travel, superheroes, and more, here are twenty mindblowing, horror-strewn, weird, woke, nerdy, terrifying, liberating, fantastic, utopian, surreal, genre-defying and empowering short stories, all of them worth reading and rereading now and far into futurity.
Reclaiming histories of racism and oppression and seizing the day, these writers are forging kaleidoscopic new senses of Black identity, community, and imaginative freedom.
Includes:
Herbal by Nalo Hopkinson
All That Touches the Air by An Owomoyela
Bludgeon by Thaddeus Howze
A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Sanford and Sun by Dawolu Jabari Anderson
A Song for You by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Tender by Sofia Samatar
The Malady of Need by Kiini Ibura Salaam
The Venus Effect by Violet Allen
The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington by Phenderson Djèlí Clark
The Hospital Where by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N. K. Jemisin
The Final Flight of the Unicorn Girl by Alex Smith
Calendar Girls by Justina Ireland
Shape-ups at Delilah’s by Rion Amilcar Scott
Habibi by Tochi Onyebuchi
Spyder Threads by Craig Laurance Gidney
The Orb by Tara Campbell
We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle
Ruler of the Rear Guard by Maurice Broaddus
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