Black science fiction

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Black science fiction or Black speculation fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African diaspora take part and/or are depicted.

Writers such as Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler are just two of the many writers who have worked in the area of Science fiction. Dark Matter is a collection series of stories and essays from writers of African descent.

The Carl Brandon Society is a group originating in the science fiction community dedicated to addressing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

In the late 1990s a number of cultural critics began to use the term Afrofuturism to depict a cultural and literary movement of thinkers and artists of the African diaspora who were using science, technology, and science fiction as means of exploring the black experience.