I’ve been told I need to read more sci fi by non-white authors and looking at my shelves I think it’s true and I want to try something new. But I realised I sadly couldn’t think of any authors off the top of my head! Can anyone recommend anything?

    • Nkiru Anaya@lemm.ee
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      I second Octavia Butler.

      On my list to read, but haven’t yet, is N.K. Jemisin.

      A fairly new author is Malcom Turnbull. He was on a radio interview a while back and the book (The Lesson) sounded interesting so I gor it and read it.

      A lot of the sci-fi books I’ve been reading lately have black [main] characters. I don’t know if those authors are black though. I have to look into it.

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    I really loved the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and have been wanting to reread them, which I don’t do with many books, plus read her other stuff.

    Also, it’s fantasy not sci-fi but I’m currently reading Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse and liking it so far.

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    The Three-body Problem trilogy and The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu (plus some fanfiction) are the obvious choice.

    Recently there was a thread here about Africa-focused sci-fi but I don’t remember what that genre is called…

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    Yoon Ha Lee - Ninefox Gambit

    Temi Oh - Do You Dream of Terra Two?

    Tochi Onyebuchi - War Girls

    Trade Thompson - Rosewater

    Marlon James - Black Leopard Red Wolf

    P. Djeli Clark - A Master Of Djinn

    S. A. Chakraborty - The City Of Brass

    Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars

    That’s probably enough for now, but I’ve got more on request 😅

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      Yoon Ha Lee really plays with fun math concepts. Great stuff. The Ninefox trilogy was a real entry point for me to begin to appreciate Korean mythology.

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    I thoroughly enjoyed an Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. It’s an interesting take on the generation ship theme.

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    I have a book called Sinopticon which primarily consists of science fiction stories by woman from China. So far they have been very different from anything else I’ve read as they often completely abandon any kind of tropes.

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        They are good and interesting in my opinion. I haven’t finished all of the short stories yet though, but I can’t imagine the rest of them would be bad.