Dark Matter (anthology)

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora is an anthology edited by Sheree R. Thomas. It was followed by a sequel, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.

Editions

• 2000: Warner Aspect, ISBN 0-446-67724-8 (pbk)

Contents

• "Introduction: Looking for the Invisible"

Fiction

• "Sister Lilith" by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• "The Comet" by W. E. B. Du Bois
• "Chicago 1927" by Jewelle Gomez
• "Black No More" (excerpt from the novel) by George S. Schuyler
• "separation anxiety" by Evie Shockley
• "Tasting Songs" by Leone Ross
• "can You Wear My Eyes" by Kalamu ya Salaam
• "Like Daughter" by Tananarive Due
• "Greedy Choke Puppy" by Nalo Hopkinson
• "Rhythm Travel" by Amiri Baraka
• "Buddy Bolden" by Kalamu ya Salaam
• "Aye, and Gomorrah..." by Samuel R. Delany
• "Ganger (Ball Lightning)" by Nalo Hopkinson
• "The Becoming" by Akua Lezli Hope
• "The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chesnutt
• "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia E. Butler
• "Twice, at Once, Separated" by Linda Addison
• "Gimmile's Songs" by Charles R. Saunders
• "At the Huts of Ajala" by Nisi Shawl
• "The Woman in the Wall" by Steven Barnes
• "Ark of Bones" by Henry Dumas
• "Butta's Backyard Barbecue" by Tony Medina
• "Future Christmas" (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) by Ishmael Reed
• "At Life's Limits" by Kiini Ibura Salaam
• "The African Origin of UFOs" (excerpt from the novel) by Anthony Joseph
• "The Astral Visitor Delta Blues" by Robert Fleming
• "The Space Traders" by Derrick Bell
• "The Pretended" by Darryl A. Smith
• "Hussy Strutt" by Ama Patterson

Essays

• "Racism and Science Fiction" by Samuel R. Delany
• "Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction" by Charles R. Saunders
• "Black to the Future" by Walter Mosley
• "Yet Do I Wonder" by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
• "The Monophobic Response" by Octavia E. Butler

• Contributors
• Copyrights and Permissions
• Acknowledgements