This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works both literary and cinematic and
issues from writers directors and artists who claim the science fiction speculative fiction
and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by
examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler Walter Mosley and Nalo Hopkinson through the
lens of ecofeminist veganism post-9 11 racial geopolitics and the effect of the computer
database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as
speculative fiction by examining for the first time the vampire tropes present in Audre Lorde's
poetry and by tracing her influence on the horror fiction of Jewelle Gomez. The collection
moves beyond exploration of literary fiction to study the Afro-futurist representations of
Blacks in comic books in the Star Trek franchise in African films and in blockbuster films
like Independence Day I Robot and I Am Legend.
