I’ll begin with horror, and my usual disclaimer: I’m not really a horror aficionado. Speculative Fiction here includes, as we expect, fantasy, horror, and SF. To begin with, this is a really strong anthology, especially on the SF side. It’s fascinating to see points-of-view that we just didn’t see in American SF books even a couple of decades ago. It would be silly to say that the only thing that matters in this book is the excellence of the fiction – though that’s the most important thing, but here we also see the value of different histories, both personal and cultural, in informing the imagination. This book includes writers of Hispanic heritage, those from all over Asia, those of Native American heritage, and of course African and African-American writers.
I hope it’s not news to anyone that there are a lot of people of color who write spectacular speculative fiction. New Suns is subtitled “Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color”.
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