Dark matter: a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora

Introduction: Looking for the Invisible

Sister Lilith / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Comet / W. E. B. Du Bois

Chicago 1927 / Jewelle Gomez

Black No More (except from the novel) / George S. Schuyler

separation anxiety / Evie Shockley

Tasting Songs / Leone Ross

Can You Wear My Eyes / Kalamu ya Salaam

Like Daughter / Tananative Due

Greedy Choke Puppy / Nalo Hopkinson

Rhythm Travel / Amiri Baraka

Buddy Bolden / Kalamu ya Salaam

Aye, and Gomorrah ... / Samuel R. Delany

Ganger (Ball Lightning) / Nalo Hopkinson

The Becoming / Akua Lezli Hope

The Goophered Grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt

The Evening and the Morning and the Night / Octavia E. Butler

Twice, at Once, Separated / Linda Addison

Gimmile's Songs / Charles R. Saunders

At the Huts of Ajala / Nisi Shawl

The Woman in the Wall / Steven Barnes

Ark of Bones / Henry Dumas

Butta's Backyard Barbecue / Tony Medina

Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) / Ishmael Reed

At Life's Limits / Kiini Ibura Salaam

The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel) / Anthony Joseph

The Astral Visitor Delta Blues / Robert Fleming

The Space Traders / Derrick Bell

The Pretended / Darryl A. Smith

Hussy Strutt / Ama Patterson

Racism and Science Fiction / Samuel R. Delany

Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction / Charles R. Saunders

Black to the Future / Walter Mosley

Yet Do I Wonder / Paul D. Miller

The Monophobic Response / Octavia E. Butler.