To put it a little more simply: it is where science fiction and African pride meet and blossom into something beautiful and, in many ways, challenging. “The term ‘Afrofuturism’ was coined in 1990s by, cultural critic, Mark Dery in his edited collection Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Dery uses the term Afrofuturism to define “speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th century technoculture - and more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future.” Source My return to the series and genre in Symbiosis was nothing short of spectacular. But there was a problem: I hadn’t read the first book! That was remedied quickly, and while a review of Escaping Exodus at the time would have been a little on the late side, I regret not writing it anyway.Įscaping Exodus is an amazing read, and was my first foray into afrofuturism. Last year I was invited to review Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis – a sequel to Nicky Drayden’s Escaping Exodus.
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