Black History Month Reading List

The Carl Brandon Society recommends the following books, compiled form suggestions on the Carl Brandon Society list-serve, for Black History Month:

• So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan
   
• The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
   
• Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
   
• My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
   
• The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
   
• Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
   
• Wind Follower by Carole McDonnell
   
• Futureland by Walter Mosley
   
• The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
   
• Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
  

And the 2005 CARL BRANDON SOCIETY AWARD Winners:

• PARALLAX AWARD given to works of speculative fiction created by a person of color: 47 by Walter Mosley
   
• KINDRED AWARD given to any work of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic group: Stormwitch by Susan Vaught

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