So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy - Black Fantasy Anthology

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy

Editor: Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press (October 1, 2004)

Language: English

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An anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre “speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves.” It’s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology.

The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the “third world.” It includes stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centered in the worlds of the “developing” nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into.