Dark Matter : Reading the Bones

by Thomas, Sheree R.

• ISBN13: 9780446528603
• ISBN10: 0446528609
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-02
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub

Summary

- Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was published in Aspect hardcover in 7/00 and trade paperback in 7/01. It was featured in the "New York Times, which named it a Notable Book of the Year, and the "New York Daily News.- The first volume of "Dark Matter received glowing reviews from the "New York Times, Washington Post Book World, Essence, Vibe, and "Locus, among others, and won the prestigious World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and the Gold Pen Award. It was an Alternate Selection of Black Expressions Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and The Science Fiction Book Club.- Sheree R. Thomas, a Cave Canem Fellow and Clarion West alum, is the founding editor of "Anansi, a literary journal devoted to the African diaspora, and contributes to "Upscale, Black Issues Book Review, Washington Post, QBR, and many online publications.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Fiction
ibo landing	1	(6)
ihsan bracy
The Quality of Sand	7	(17)
Cherene Sherrard
Yahimba's Choice	24	(23)
Charles R. Saunders
The Glass Bottle Trick	47	(14)
Nalo Hopkinson
Desire	61	(17)
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Recovery from a Fall	78	(11)
David Findlay
Anansi Meets Peter Parker at the Taco Bell on Lexington	89	(2)
Douglas Kearney
The Magical Negro	91	(4)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Jesus Christ in Texas	95	(10)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?	105	(6)
Henry Dumas
`Cause Harlem Needs Heroes	111	(15)
Kevin Brockenbrough
Whipping Boy	126	(24)
Pam Noles
Old Flesh Song	150	(12)
Ibi Aanu Zoboi
Whispers in the Dark	162	(21)
Walter Mosley
Aftermoon	183	(14)
Tananarive Due
Voodoo Vincent and the Astrostoriograms	197	(17)
Tyehimba Jess
The Binary	214	(18)
John Cooley
BLACKout	232	(11)
Jill Robinson
Sweet Dreams	243	(6)
Charles Johnson
Buying Primo Time	249	(7)
Wanda Coleman
Corona	256	(20)
Samuel R. Delany
Maggies	276	(18)
Nisi Shawl
Excerpt from Mindscape	294	(20)
Andrea Hairston
Trance	314	(55)
Kalamu ya Salaam
Essays
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Transcription of a Panel at the 1997 Black Speculative Fiction Writers Conference Held at Clark Atlanta University	349	(20)
Jewelle Gomez
Her Pen Could Fly: Remembering Virginia Hamilton	369	(6)
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Celebrating the Alien: The Politics of Race and Species in the Juveniles of Andre Norton	375	(10)
Carol Cooper
Contributors	385	(12)
Copyrights and Permissions	397	(2)
Acknowledgments	399