Afro-future females: Black writers chart science fiction's newest new-wave trajectory

(print) xxiv, 257 p. ; 24 cmPreface p. ix -- Introductions : "Dark Matter" Matters p. 3 -- Essays : The Blackness of Outer Space Fiction as Blast(off) from the Past p. 31 -- Stories : Techno/Magic Sistahs Are Not the Sistahs from Another Planet p. 135 -- Commentaries : Kindred Spirit p. 179 -- Afterword p. 245 -- Notes on Contributors p. 251Item embargoed for five year