Black Masculine/Male Sci-fi and Fantasy
I've spent the last few years cultivating a list of Black girls in speculative fiction stories. This site was never meant to just house SFF with Black girls, however, so this year, I wanted to expand my site to include stories that feature Black boys. One thing that I've realized through all of this is that there aren't that many. Yes, I know that I've missed many of them, but in comparison to what I've found for Black women and girls, the number is much lower. I'm not surprised at all, but I was hoping to get a longer list going before I shared. Of course, I'll continue to add to this list as I find more, but this is what I have for now. Below, you'll see the same language on the "Black girls in speculative fiction" page.
Before I give the list, I should probably define what speculative fiction is. According to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Literature, #SpecFic is defined as the following:
A few things:
Before I give the list, I should probably define what speculative fiction is. According to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Literature, #SpecFic is defined as the following:
- The term “speculative fiction” has three historically located meanings: a subgenre of science fiction that deals with human rather than technological problems, a genre distinct from and opposite to science fiction in its exclusive focus on possible futures, and a super category for all genres that deliberately depart from imitating “consensus reality” of everyday experience. In this latter sense, speculative fiction includes fantasy, science fiction, and horror, but also their derivatives, hybrids, and cognate genres like the gothic, dystopia, weird fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, ghost stories, superhero tales, alternate history, steampunk, slipstream, magic realism, fractured fairy tales, and more.
A few things:
- The list is in alphabetical order by author's last name. The books under the author's names are grouped by series or just randomly put in there for now. Black men/masculine authors are in blue and Black women/femme authors are in purple (if I know for sure).
- The single books are ones where I could only find one book written by the author with a Black woman/girl protagonist. I may find others, and if/when I do, they will be added to the larger list. They are in alphabetical order by title.
- If I could tell the difference, books written for young people have no special font, books categorized as adult (including new adult) are italicized, books written by smaller publishers or self-published are underlined. Of course, people like reading all kinds of books, but I figured it would be good to have if people were looking for specific things.
- To make it look better and to highlight some awesome films/tv shows, I've included speculative fiction films/tv shows/books/music featuring Black men/masculine characters on the right.
- Book reviews are now housed on my Goodreads account because it's much easier to update. Access the reviews and add me as a friend!
List of BooksSteven Barnes
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