Speculative Fiction is a literary genre without rules or boundaries. In my estimation, the late author Octavia E. Butler was and remains the grand dame of the category. As an unabashed fan for decades, Boston College professor Rhonda D. Frederick's new book, Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions, unpacks the movement's philosophy from a Black perspective.
Speculative Fiction is a literary genre without rules or boundaries. In my estimation, the late author Octavia E. Butler was and remains the grand dame of the category. As an unabashed fan for decades, Boston College professor Rhonda D. Frederick's new book, Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions, unpacks the movement's philosophy from a Black perspective.
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