Comments on: Mindblowing Science Fiction by POC

By: el gato calculista

el gato calculista — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:49:11 +0000

samuel delany’s Dhalgren is one of the best books i have ever read. the fact that the main character is a queer indigenous person is quite amazing. and the amount of sexuality, race, gender, mental health etc. content in it is fantastic.

By: eric

eric — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:12:22 +0000

late to the party…. Re. Delaney, “Aye, And Gomorrah” was more mind-expanding than any of the other Delaney stories I’ve read. But I don’t know as much Delaney as most of the Delaney boosters here; anyway, he’s to me one of the quinteseentially mind-expanding writers in SF, so I’m puzzled by any list of mind-expanding stories that doesn’t include him.

Other than that, I don’t really know who is ‘of color’ and don’t assume I know who’s a man or a woman. (Tiptree being case in point.) So I don’t feel qualified to make any other recommendations. Unless we’re considering magical realism, in which case some of Sherman Alexei’s short work would qualify.

By: NancyP

NancyP — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:24:35 +0000

How about First Nations SFF authors in the US, Canada, Central American countries? Maori, Hawaiian/Polynesian, Australian indigenous SFF authors? African SFF authors?

There was a good anthology of “post-colonial SFF” a few years back, So Long Been Dreaming. I have seen it mentioned a number of times at this and other sites, but it is always worth promoting.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:23:33 +0000

shah8, thanks. Argh.

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By: Carrie D

Carrie D — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:49:49 +0000

A couple off the beaten path – I’m reading a novel about near future cryptology, activism, and hacking by a Bolivian writer, Turing’s Delirium by Edmundo Paz Soldan. (2006 English translation) I can’t vouch for the end, but so far it’s pretty interesting. Teen girl hacker as one protagonist, though otherwise a guy novel.

A short story writer and novelist who got published in SFF mostly in the 80s and 90s but has had a couple stories in F&SF lately is Marta Randall. (Collection on Lulu) I haven’t gotten around to reading all her stuff and don’t know her identifications, but she was born in Mexico City and later moved to the SF Bay Area; she writes a lot of POC characters and her stories have that whiz bang pulpy SF style (mindblowing I dunno, but I love to read that style not tied to horrid politics).

By: shah8

shah8 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:24:16 +0000

Stefanie, I’m sorry, but Bloodchild, while awesome, is quite exceptionally bloody.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:25:38 +0000

They already made a movie of Earthsea, and Le Guin wrote a scathing piece about the whitewashing of it.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:25:00 +0000

In this digital age, most every author has a personal website (and often a blog) that will give you information about the author and a photograph. The big publishing houses have websites which often have author photos.

By: Julia

Julia — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:23:12 +0000

Huh. “Bone Dance” has been discussed a lot in my circles because the main character is, in many ways, a trans person. Then again I know a ton of trans activists, gender queers and gender rabble rousers.