...Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi’s Biggest Awards?
I can’t for the life of me recall reading much science fiction written by black guys. Can anyone enlighten me?
A lot of what Neil Degrasse Tyson does is science fiction.
Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler (deceased), and Steven Barnes come immediately to mind. There are others.
Samuel R. Delany, black guy, comes to mind. As does Octavia Butler, a black woman.
Otherwise, I have trouble identifying one.
The irony of the Sad Puppies versus main slate is that one guy involved has a black wife and interracial daughter, but that doesn’t count toward a diversity quota. Likewise, an Asian author outed as a radically conservative person trolling liberals was booted, because an Asian in Asia isn’t really diverse if they aren’t liberal.
William Shetterly actually details this matter going back a decade, like how Elizabeth Moon, a female scifi author and war veteran, was uninvited as a speaker at a convention for saying we shouldn’t have a mosque by the World Trade Center when there aren’t churches in Saudi Arabia. Likewise he points out Cherokee authors ignored because they aren’t into grievances.
“How to Make a Social Justice Warrior” by William Shetterly - a Review
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Review-of-the-eBook-How-to-Make-a-Social-Justice-Warrior-by-William-Shetterly
Steven Barnes writes a lot with Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle, and writes a lot of action SF.
OTOH, Chip Delaney writes gay porn sf and is a proud member of NAMBLA. His stuff is pure CRAP.