Pieces on Speculative Fiction

In my opinion racial issues aren’t really discussed in fantasy and science fiction. I haven’t found many authors who are willing to tackle this task.
Tia Nevitt makes an excellent point in a recent post to her blog.

I don’t check the skin color of the author, but when I crack open the book I invariably find a novel about white characters. To be sure, most of these settings are like northern Europe, in a medieval world, where you would indeed expect there to be mostly white people. I have never read about a black elf (except the drow, which I don’t think really count).

I’ve been thinking this quite a bit and in addition to recent fantasy debudant David Anthony Durham I can’t think of any black speculative fiction Read the rest of this entry »