BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION

Here you will find books, films, articles and more on the subject of science fiction and fantasy by - and about - people of African descent.
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A New Way to Play Ki Khanga!

KI KHANGA: THE SWORD AND SOUL ROLE PLAYING GAME puts you in the role of a character of your liking in a world of mystery and magic; of villainy and victory; of sword… and soul.

Will you delve for lost artifacts in the ruins of ancient temples? Strap on beaded armor and an nkisi necklace to battle undead legions as they storm your city upon the backs of skeletal camels, or defend your village from…

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The First Steamfunkateers Adventure Is Now Available!

The Haunting of the House of Crum, the first adventure for the Steamfunkateers Steamfunk Role Playing Game, beyond the adventure in the core manual, is available NOW!

Players send their characters into a terrifying haunted house that once belonged to the creator of the potato chip, George Crum (nee George Speck).

Will they make it out alive, or with their sanity intact? YOU decide.Choose your…

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Steamfunkateers, the Steamfunk Role Playing Game, is now available!

Baas Bello, the most intelligent person on earth, races to prevent mad scientist, The Alchemist, from assassinating George Washington Carver… Harriet Tubman and John Henry team up to do battle with an army of steam-powered Confederate automatons before they turn the tides of the Civil War… Robert Charles hunts Were-Rats in New Orleans… Mad scientists, Vampires, Air Pirates, daring Adventurers,…

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A Brand New Funk: Biofunk comes to Afrofuturism!

It all started with Steamfunk – a style of writing and visual aesthetic that combines the culture and approach to life of people of African descent with that of the Steampunk aesthetic. Next came Dieselfunk– fiction, film and fashion that combine the style and mood of Dieselpunk – Steampunk’s grittier sibling – with African and African-American inspiration. It is a name I came up with in 2012,…

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Afrofuturism meets Post-Apocalypse with Initiate 16!

“Initiate 16 lay paralyzed, face-down on a glass table. Scores of blood-stained, shiny metallic needles, attached to snake-like arms, jutted from her back, neck, arms, legs, and even the backs of her heels.  Her whole back was peeled open, revealing her spine.  The bright lights in the ceiling above her shone on the slick, pink sinew of her back and upon several links of bone that composed her…

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The Blacktasticon Kickstarter is LIVE!

The Blacktasticon Kickstarter is live! Support this Blacknificent gathering of the Black Fantastic today!  

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“Balogun Ojetade has created a fresh, imaginative and humorous tale in Jagunjagun Lewa. The story is filled with action and drama, a perfect display of Mr. Ojetade’s genre-blending style. I’m eager to see what happens next, and you will be, too.” —Milton Davis, Bestselling Author and Publisher “The back story promises action and adventure…the artwork is phenomenal…and this comic actually had me…

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Ki Khanga has always had its heroes. Men and women of honor, who risk it all for life, love, freedom, or to beat back the evil that threatens to creep, crawl, or fly from the Cleave and consume the world.  Then there’s Qiq. Skilled. Brilliant. Deadly. For the right price. Qiq is the bounty hunter called when no one else is bold enough, crazy enough, or greedy enough to do the job, but he doesn’t…

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Omari Ket, the rogue and mercenary who squeezes out of scrapes he just can’t seem to avoid getting into, created by Milton Davis. Qiq, the half-human/half-elemental bounty hunter – skilled and deadly… for the right price, who takes on the jobs no one else can… or will, created by Balogun Ojetade. We are all drawn to anti-heroes – and in the cases of Omari Ket and Qiq, I use “hero” lightly – with…

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Known as the Nerdiest City in America and as the Hub of Speculative Fiction, few cities offer as much as Atlanta by way of the weird, the fantastical, the scary and the out right off the chain. Atlanta also happens to be one of the Blackest cities in the world, so the anthology ATLiens had to happen. Featuring fantastic and funky tales set in Atlanta by the authors from the ATL State of Black…

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