History New podcast series focuses on Afrofuturism Jennifer Sandlin

afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn

art New book about the album cover art of Sun Ra's Saturn label Mark Frauenfelder

afrofuturism Read Mark Dery's fabulous evisceration of a paleoconservative's hand-wringing review of the Met's Afrofuturist exhibition Mark Frauenfelder

afrofuturism Watch this opera adaptation of an Octavia Butler novel on Friday night Thom Dunn

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 Ava DuVernay is directing an HBO adaptation based on Brian Wood's DMZ Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Folio Society is releasing a gorgeous edition of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" Cory Doctorow

music Pedro Bell, the psychedelic painter behind Funkadelic's visual vibe, RIP David Pescovitz

happy mutants An appreciation for Samuel Delany Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Check out these amazing sf movies made by Nigerian teens 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

art Afrofuturist artist creates gorgeous portraits with Deep Dreaming Cory Doctorow

film Must-see bizarro viewing: Boots Riley's 'Sorry to Bother You' Rusty Blazenhoff

science fiction Dirty Computer: Janelle Monáe's gorgeous, sexy, queer afrofuturist short film Cory Doctorow

happy mutants For the first time in nearly 40 years, there's a new Parliament album! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The BBC on Afrofuturism Cory Doctorow