This collection, like the last, featured some of speculative fiction's finest writers, such as Charles Johnson, Nalo Hopkinson, and Walter Mosley, alongside new voices such as Nnedi Okorafor and Kevin Brockenbrough. Soon after the release of Dark Matter, Thomas was hard at work on another collection, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Now it is clear that every child is free to dream strange dreams. Dark Matter is not just about equal opportunity it is about, forgive the phrase, humanizing the speculative, opening the worlds of science fiction and fantasy to the many peoples who exist in our world. Here at last is a definitive collection demonstrating that people of all shades can, and have, entered into other worlds, dimensions, and fantasies. Science fiction is often construed as the domain of white men, in terms of authorship, audience, and characters. Delany, and Tananarive Due, as well as unlikely suspects such as W. Thomas included authors such as the late, great Octavia E. Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora is a groundbreaking achievement by any measure and was the winner of the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning poet, writer, editor, and publisher known especially for her Dark Matter series, a collection of some of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror produced by people of African descent.
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