Science Fiction

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids

Black History Month with Books for Black Kids: Science Fiction

This edition of BHM with BFBK is dedicated to science fiction with Black protagonists and Black authors—speculative fiction, steampunk, Afrofuturism, and more.

For more science fiction and fantasy books, visit the Books for Black Kids directory: Science Fiction

Books listed here:

📚Breath of Oblivion (Astra Black, 2) by Maurice Broaddus

📚Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston

📚The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor, 2) by Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen

📚Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

📚Buffalo Soldier by Maurice Broaddus

📚Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

📚Ink & Incantation by E. V. Everest, Allison Rose, Ben Green, C.L. Cannon, Jamie Dalton, Jessa Lucas, Joy Lewis, K. R. S. McEntire, Kristen S. Walker, Maria Vermisoglou, Nicole Zoltack, R. L. Medina, R.L. Perez, S. R. Breaker, Sudha Kuruganti, and Tricia Copeland

📚Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler

📚The Night Masquerade (Binti, 3) by Nnedi Okorafor

📚The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes

📚The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow