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So when I started to write my own science fiction and fantasy, I was surprised that it was considered un-African.
We have to have tests that are similar to the Bechdel test, and ask questions like: Are two or more Africans in this piece of fiction healthy?
Now, most popular views of AI, of course, come from science fiction and the movies, and I'm personally a big Star Wars fan.
It's my science fiction fantasy cure of my own incurable disorder.
The accuracy of that temperature has been called into question, but that doesn’t diminish the novel’s standing as a masterpiece of dystopian fiction.
Dystopian fiction as a genre amplifies troubling features of the world around us and imagines the consequences of taking them to an extreme.
Lest you think this is all fiction, lest you think this is all fantasy, or romance, these same architects were asked to produce something for the central courtyard of PS1, which is a museum in Brooklyn, New York, as part of their young architects summer series.
Though her own politics are still debated, O’Connor’s fiction could also be attuned to the racism of the South.
As he earned acclaim for his fiction, Baldwin gathered his thoughts on race, class, culture and exile in his 1955 extended essay, "Notes of a Native Son."
And by this, I don't mean human-level AI, or science fiction artificial intelligence; I simply mean that machines and algorithms are making decisions.
A visionary storyteller who upended science fiction, Butler built stunning worlds throughout her work– and explored dilemmas that keep us awake at night.
At twelve, she begged her mother for a typewriter after enduring a campy science fiction film called "Devil Girl From Mars." Unimpressed with what she saw, Butler knew she could tell a better story.
Much science fiction features white male heroes who blast aliens or become saviors of brown people.
For Butler, imagination was not only for planting the seeds of science fiction– but also a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms.
This idea of leaving but bringing and then becoming more is at one of the hearts of Afrofuturism, or you can simply call it a different type of science fiction.
I can best explain the difference between classic science fiction and Afrofuturism if I used the octopus analogy.
The same can be said about the foundations of various forms of science fiction.
So much of science fiction speculates about technologies, societies, social issues, what's beyond our planet, what's within our planet.
Science fiction is one of the greatest and most effective forms of political writing.
It's all about the question, "What if?" Still, not all science fiction has the same ancestral bloodline, that line being Western-rooted science fiction, which is mostly white and male.
So what if a Nigerian-American wrote science fiction?
Growing up, I didn't read much science fiction.
My science fiction had different ancestors, African ones.
I was born to two Nigerian immigrant parents and raised in the United States, one of the birthplaces of classic science fiction.
However, it was my Nigerian heritage that led me to write science fiction.
Like Udide, the spider artist, African science fiction's blood runs deep and it's old, and it's ready to come forth, and when it does, imagine the new technologies, ideas and sociopolitical changes it'll inspire.
For Africans, homegrown science fiction can be a will to power.
And that is not science fiction.
In the not-too-distant future, repairing humans is going to go from something that is far-fetched science fiction into common medical practice.
Is it just because I think it's cool, or because I'm just weirdly fascinated by stories of 17th- and 19th-century science fiction?
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