afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn
afrofuturism Read Mark Dery's fabulous evisceration of a paleoconservative's hand-wringing review of the Met's Afrofuturist exhibition Mark Frauenfelder
books Out today: a two-volume, slipcased edition of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, introduced by Gloria Steinem and Toshi Reagon Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male? Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The Folio Society is releasing a gorgeous edition of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" Cory Doctorow
not food The real meaning of plantation tours: American Downton Abbey vs American Horror Story Cory Doctorow
happy mutants World Science Fiction Storybundle: $15 for 10 DRM-free books from around the world, benefiting English PEN Cory Doctorow
happy mutants A new edition of Octavia Butler's classic postapocalyptic Afrofuturist novel "Parable of the Sower," with an introduction by Hugo winner NK Jemisin Cory Doctorow
science fiction Dirty Computer: Janelle Monáe's gorgeous, sexy, queer afrofuturist short film Cory Doctorow