Welcome to AFRO Sci-Fi
This is where it starts:
An Exploration into African American Science Fiction
 African American Science Fiction is more than just the latest marketing opportunity for hypsters of new automobiles, toothpaste or fried chicken. And, hopefully, the writers, artists, film makers and others who will reap the tremendous profits from the growing popularity of African American Science Fiction (or what I prefer to call, "AFRO Sci-Fi") will understand the seriousness of expanding the consciousness of the Black descendants of proud Kings, worldly conquerors, kidnapped persons, wage workers, prison inmates, and uninspired couch potatoes who consume Sci-fi.
According to my good friend Wikipedia, "Science fiction developed and boomed in the 20th century, as the deep penetration of science and inventions into society created an interest in literature that explored technology's influence on people and society. Today, science fiction has significant influence on world culture and thought."
Science Fiction is mostly a 20th Century phenomenon, the same period as the Civil Rights Movement. But as young white boys and girls lifted their aspirations to the stars, Black people were more concerned with getting a seat in the front section of a raggy-ass bus or eating a dry tuna fish sandwich in a public diner without being attacked by vicious dogs or imprisoned as desperate criminals or categorized as anti-Americans.
I see old images of NASA scientists and technicians huddled over their computer consoles as America landed men on the Moon, and I wonder where the %$#@@!# were the Black folks? Why didn't we jealously embrace the fast paced, pulp fiction of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers and get inspired to build rockets that could traverse the solar system?
WAIT, I'm not angry! I am MOTIVATED.
There is a galaxy-sized void to be filled. Black folks have a real opportunity. We will create Star Trek movies with Halle Berry slouching in the Captain's Chair, romancing a male, three-eyed, scaly alien; Halle then blasts the Klingon Tea Baggers to Double Hell. The Force will be an African Witch Doctor changing the currents of world domination. Dr. Who finally will be a Brother or a Sistah! But more likely, we will develop new vistas of spec fiction; African warriors will build starships, shaman shape-shifters will manipulate empires, and young black men and women will challenge and overcome the evils of this world and many others.
There is a lot to do. . . and anyone interested in AFRO Sci-Fi, Afrofuturism or other tag lines can start right here. Explore the "Links" on this site; they will grow in number to reach many more regions of Blackness in Space and speculation.
Tell me what you find, add your links, so that I can publicize them, make other people aware of what we all are tying to do. Any speculative fiction writer with characters of African descent or themes related to the Black experience will find a home here. No Charge.
My name is Stafford L Battle. I will be your guide into the movies, books, art, music, and philosophy of African and African American Science Fiction to be better known as AFRO Sci-Fi. Much more is coming very, very soon. Thanks for visiting, and, be sure to get your FREE copy of the ebook: AFRO Sci Fi at www.sbattle.com while it is still available. I'm sure you will enjoy it!
Set phasers on: "Stunningly fantastic!"
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