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Summary: Get this book!
Review: A huge sci-fi and fantasy reader I am also getting ready to be a high school teacher of special ed, reading & English. This is a book that will go on my list of books to write lesson plans about and to make sure my students read. The one complaint I have about this book is that I'd read the Butler, Delany & Saunders already. Couldn't we have gotten new stories for this historic anthology? But other writers were a revelation to me.
A great book! Nalo Hopkinson's story about a (...)gone amuck, Tannarive Due's story about the very human side of cloning and Steven Barnes' chilling almost apocalytic picture of a modern African state after a coup are all terrific reading-- and why my students -- and you -- should be excited!
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Summary: Get this book!
Review: A huge sci-fi and fantasy reader I am also getting ready to be a high school teacher of special ed, reading & English. This is a book that will go on my list of books to write lesson plans about. The one complaint I have about this book is that I'd read the Butler, Delaney & Saunders already. Couldn't we have gottewn new stories for this historic anthology? But other writers were a revelation to me.
A great book!
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Summary: Excellent anthology
Review: Fans of science fiction and fantasy will be delighted with this new anthology that focuses on the contributions of Black authors to the speculative fiction genre. The 40 tales have been written over the past century and include many notable writers such as Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson. Historical figures like Web DuBois have also contributed to this enchanting collection.Most of the stories are excellent and have a satirical bite to them. None of the tales fail to entertain. Although some of the older contributions shows their "age" (as many of the nineteenth and early twentieth century science fiction tales do), nonetheless they are well written and enjoyable. Readers of short story science fiction or fantasy will find DARK MATTER an entertaining, enlightening collection. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Excellent Sci Fi
Review: I am 56 and have been reading sci fi/fantasy since, oh, about 10. This is one of the best collection of stories I have ever read. You'll be glad you read it. The fact of the color of the writers is interesting, but not important. I have read so much sci fi, and even taken a writing course. The bottom line - this is great science fiction.
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Summary: Excellent Sci Fi
Review: I am 56 and have been reading sci fi/fantasy since, oh, about 10. This is one of the best collection of stories I have ever read. You'll be glad you read it. The fact of the color of the writers is interesting, but not important. I have read so much sci fi, and even taken a writing course. The bottom line - this is great science fiction.
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Summary: Don't delay. Buy it NOW
Review: I cannot put a firmer recommendation on a book. This is far and away the best story collection I've read in a few years. It will appeal to anyone with an inkling of interest in fantasy/sf, literary fiction, or African-American writing. Frankly, I can't imagine many people who are serious about reading contemporary fiction that would not love this volume. My personal favorites out of this were Schuyler's story about a machine that can make people white, Steve Barnes neo-holocaust story of love, sacrifices, loss, and the human spirit, and the work of the incredible up-and-coming Nalo Hopkinson.
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Summary: Thank God !!
Review: I have been waiting for someone to put together an anthology of Black Sci-Fi writers for years now! All too often people think that black folks can't write intelligent stories whose characters could be of any color. The world places our writers in a small bubble and we have to fight to break out. This book gives people a taste of the talent of black writers that is, and has been out there. It inspired me to go out and find the books of the the writers I didn't know and also to find other books from the writers I was familiar with. Although it is not this book's fault, there is a down side; some of the writers depicted in DARK MATTER are hard to find or out of print. Maybe with more books out there like this, publishers will realize just how starved the black audience is for talented black writers of any venue and do something about that. I really enjoyed it, you will too and truly... DARK MATTERS!
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Summary: I read it from cover to cover!
Review: I'm not a big sf reader. I'm even less of an anthology reader and tend to skip around from story to story, eventually leaving the book half finished and moving on to something new. DARK MATTER was an entirely DIFFERENT MATTER! I read it from cover to cover and was drooling for more. Found myself having to put the book down and catch my breath at times. Even had a dream about being chased by a horny,electric doppelganger from one of the stories. Amazing! It was a very unexpected treat (borrowed it from a friend on a whim). Thank you Sheree Thomas. I was truly blown away.
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Summary: Worthy of a Hugo.
Review: I've long suspected there were more writers of color out there besides Octivia Butler and Samuel Delany. Ms. Thomas introduces a rich collection spanning decades. My only question is when will volume 2 be published? If you love SF, add this brilliant work to your collection.
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Summary: I am so glad that Charles R. Saunders is alive!
Review: Thank you, thank you, thank you! Charles R. Saunders is alive now if only someone would republish the first three Imaro books, and then publish the two he's had completed for almost 20 years, now is the time for mr. Saunders to become a name in the field, its too bad Daw books never realized what they had on their hands. I read Imaro in high school and it made me both proud and happy, now I want to share the power of those books with the newest generation of Black Youth. Peace and Happy New Year
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