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Since Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, science fiction has been troubled by color, with hopeful monsters and terrifying insurgencies intermittently rupturing the genre's pallid certainties. Drawing together African American SF and indigenous futurism, Black and Brown Planets suggests that now at last their time is here. --Mark Bould, reader in film and literature at The University of the West of England and co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television

From Isiah Lavender's powerful introduction in which he recounts his first memories of racial otherness and of being the target of racism to Robin Anne Reid's pioneering coda in which she brings to SF fan studies the analytical tools of computational linguistics in the service of constructing a social ontology of race, with a dozen fine essays in between, <i>Black and Brown Planets</i> significantly expands and intensifies our understanding of the ways in which 'the literature of the future' has sometimes earnestly grappled with, sometimes simply erased, and sometimes blithely ignored issues of race. The essays in this collection extend the color line studied in Lavender's <i>Race in American Science Fiction</i> to global color lines, including those involving indigenous peoples in America, Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand, always with an eye toward ways in which race and ethnicity figure in the construction of SF societies. --Brooks Landon, Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Professor at the University of Iowa</p>

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Isiah Lavender III, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an assistant professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Race in American Science Fiction.

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