The AFROFuturist

Going Fishing   By  Stafford L. Battle “If you don’t wrap it just right, it will fall off.” That always worried my younger...

Dear Kids: I suspect that more than likely in your world, letter writing and reading flimsy paper documents may be considered old-fas...

Artist’s impression of DAWN spacecraft close to asteroids. Courtesy: NASA/JPL NASA's space probe Dawn has reached Ceres, the la...

Comparison of the nuclear powered Daedalus spacecraft and Saturn V Moon rocket. Credit/copyright: Adrian Mann For more than a century, ...

The excitement  in science fiction stories is heightened when writers heed the problems of space travel and offer stories using nov...

Book Review: Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler; foreword by Walter Mosley Walter Mosley tell us, " Unexpected Stories re...

There are many, many bad girls who do good in speculative fiction. I will just mention a few and I welcome comments about other "...

When you Google the news, you discover that, indeed, the world is a very dangerous place. Diseases; multiple wars; blind racial/religio...

One of my favorite actors is Samuel L. Jackson.  He can drop the "M-F' bomb like no one else on the planet. But he also has...

What was the first science fiction movie featuring an all Black cast?  Was it a success? How talented were the filmmaker and actors working...

Dear Great, Great, Great Grand Kids: I suspect that more than likely in your world, letter writing and reading flimsy paper docume...