Over the Holidays I finally got around to editing the Afrofuturism special I did on Ujima for podcast. It has two songs in it that needed to be removed for copyright reasons. As you may recall, it features Tade Thompson in the studio, plus interviews recorded at World Fantasy with Bill Campbell, Tobias Buckell and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.

The podcast mentions two specific books that are available in the bookstore: Mothership, and Adventure Rocketship. I’ve also started tagging books as Afrofuturism if they seem to fit the description. You can find all of them here.

You can listen to the podcast of the show here:

The cover illustrating this post is not from a book in the store, it is something that was sent to me for review, a book called Odysella: Empress Of Nar. If you are looking at it and thinking, “yeah, self-published”, well you are right. However, bear in mind that people of color have much greater difficulty selling books to big publishers than white folks. Also, as this post makes clear, author Shirley Hardy-Leonard has a successful career as a playwright and scriptwriter behind her, so she knows what she’s doing. I’m possibly not the best person to review it, if only because my knowledge of hip-hop could be written many times over on Tim Maughan’s smallest fingernail, but hopefully some of you will take a look. For an actual review, go here.

Finally, via the @BlackSciFi Twitter feed, I discovered this IndieGoGo project to crowdfund a science fiction movie in which black folks get to save the planet. Good luck, Earth Squadron, I hope you get made.