![]() ![]() ![]() This is my intro to Steven Barnes’ work, and I wish I’d discovered him much sooner (as an aside, I had no idea he was married to Tananarive Due – also a sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fiction writer of African descent. ![]() It’s not specifically what we’d categorize as sci-fi maybe more fantasy, or what has come to be known as "speculative fiction" (an umbrella term that includes the more fantastical fiction genres). How could that not get your attention? It practically sells itself. I was inspired to write this because I was very introduced to a novel by a black writer named Steven Barnes, titled "Zulu Heart." The title itself didn’t immediately grab me, but the synopsis most certainly did in short, it tells an alternate history tale in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves. I thought I’d revisit a topic we’ve tackled before – novels by and about people of African descent that you’d like to see adapted for the screen.īut more specifically, sci-fi and fantasy novels by and about people of African descent that you’d like to see adapted for the screen. ![]()
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