Mothership Rising: Afrofuturism in the Radium Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262058797)

A mind-expanding anthology of early Black science fiction--the visionary origins of Afrofuturism.

The future is waiting--come aboard.

This collection, introduced by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Nisi Shawl, remixes the past to reveal a tradition of speculative thought too long overlooked: the pioneering Black writers, playwrights, and poets whose future-facing imaginations helped lay the groundwork for artists from Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler to Parliament-Funkadelic and Janelle Monáe.

Edited by Lisa Yaszek, Mothership Rising gathers early twentieth-century visions--utopian and dystopian alike--from Pauline Hopkins, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Marita Bonner, George S. Schuyler, and others. Here are strange technologies, hidden histories, cosmic journeys, and revolutionary futures--transmissions from an earlier twentieth century, received now as a call to imagine otherwise.

Author: Lisa Yaszek
ISBN-10: 0262058790
ISBN-13: 9780262058797
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2027
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback