{"id":13810,"date":"2026-02-19T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:23:33","slug":"celebrate-black-history-month-with-black-speculative-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2026\/02\/19\/celebrate-black-history-month-with-black-speculative-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Black History Month with Black Speculative Fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drop by the 1st floor of the John T. Richardson Library to browse our temporary collection highlighting Black speculative fiction<\/a> \u2013 science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more from Black authors and featuring Black characters. Speculative fiction is known for its imaginative concepts, immersive worldbuilding, and reality-bending plotlines.<\/p>\n

We have a variety of works featured in or by authors featured in the Science Fiction Fantasy Hall of Fame \u2013 books from Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin, among others. If you\u2019re more interested in movies, TV, and video games, you can check out some of Keith David\u2019s well-known roles in Mass Effect<\/i><\/a>, Halo<\/a>, <\/i>or The Thing<\/i><\/a>, or watch Nichelle Nichols shine as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re looking for nonfiction, you might be interested in reading Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before<\/i><\/a>, a work of literary criticism by Diana Adesola Mafe, or Bodyminds Reimagined<\/i><\/a> by Sami Schalk. Or perhaps The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism, and the Speculative<\/i><\/a>, edited by the current and former directors of DePaul\u2019s Center for Black Diaspora, Dr. Julie E. Moody-Freeman and Dr. Sandra Jackson.<\/p>\n

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Finally, if you\u2019re craving something shorter, we have a number of anthologies full of short fiction and a wide range of authors available as well.<\/p>\n

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All of the aforementioned items can be found at the large display cart on the 1st floor of the John T. Richardson Library and can be checked out at the Access Services Desk. This month\u2019s display was curated by Tori Carl, the Evening Circulation Supervisor at JTR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drop by the 1st floor of the John T. Richardson Library to browse our temporary collection highlighting Black speculative fiction \u2013 science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more from Black authors and featuring Black characters. Speculative fiction is known for its imaginative concepts, immersive worldbuilding, and reality-bending plotlines. We have a variety of works featured in <\/p>\n

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