Speculative fiction anthologies & collections by writers of color

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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color 3.85 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
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Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones 4.10 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora 4.16 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
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Spirits Abroad
Spirits Abroad
by: Zen Cho
4.17 avg rating — 1,965 ratings
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Nine Bar Blues
Nine Bar Blues 4.05 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Incomplete Solutions
Incomplete Solutions 3.91 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Love Beyond Body, Space & Time
Love Beyond Body, Space & Time 3.91 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Kabu Kabu
Kabu Kabu 3.99 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Falling in Love with Hominids
Falling in Love with Hominids 3.93 avg rating — 1,457 ratings
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Skin Folk
Skin Folk 3.97 avg rating — 1,924 ratings
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Hexarchate Stories
Hexarchate Stories 4.03 avg rating — 1,402 ratings
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by: Ken Liu
4.36 avg rating — 36,811 ratings
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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
by: Ken Liu
4.04 avg rating — 5,214 ratings
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Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology
Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology 4.13 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Griots: Sisters of the Spear
Griots: Sisters of the Spear 4.56 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Elements: Fire A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!
Elements: Fire A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color! 4.41 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction 4.16 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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Incomplete Solutions
Incomplete Solutions 3.91 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Omenana to Infinity
Omenana to Infinity 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?
How Long 'til Black Future Month? 4.27 avg rating — 17,830 ratings
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Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories
Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories 3.84 avg rating — 651 ratings
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AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers 3.94 avg rating — 294 ratings
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AfroSFv2
AfroSFv2 3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Ki-Khanga: The Anthology
Ki-Khanga: The Anthology 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Steamfunk!
Steamfunk! 4.24 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction 3.96 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight
Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight 4.12 avg rating — 388 ratings
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A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
A Phoenix First Must Burn: Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope 3.95 avg rating — 3,179 ratings
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Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5)
Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5) 4.05 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
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Tender
Tender 4.19 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing
Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing 3.86 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Bloodchild and Other Stories
Bloodchild and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 26,122 ratings
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Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora 3.97 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories 3.93 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction 3.81 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Palestine +100
Palestine +100 3.92 avg rating — 649 ratings
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Twisted Beyond Recognition: Delightfully Twisted Tales Box Set - Volumes One through Six
Twisted Beyond Recognition: Delightfully Twisted Tales Box Set - Volumes One through Six 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Iraq +100: stories from a century after the invasion
Iraq +100: stories from a century after the invasion 3.47 avg rating — 661 ratings
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Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories 4.07 avg rating — 3,824 ratings
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Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage
Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Household Gods and Other Narrative Offences
Household Gods and Other Narrative Offences 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Vicenary: A Collection of Black and African Culture Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
Vicenary: A Collection of Black and African Culture Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories liked it 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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HumAIn: Navigating the Impact of AI in a Jobless Future
HumAIn: Navigating the Impact of AI in a Jobless Future it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction
Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction 4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Elements: Earth A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color!
Elements: Earth A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color! 4.61 avg rating — 57 ratings
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We Won't Fade Into Darkness
We Won't Fade Into Darkness 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours 3.64 avg rating — 14,301 ratings
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Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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AfroSFv3
AfroSFv3 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories
Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories 3.95 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories
The Candlevine Gardener and Other Stories 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Incidents at the Shrine: Short Stories
Incidents at the Shrine: Short Stories
by: Ben Okri
3.56 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Imagine Africa 500
Imagine Africa 500 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Haunted Girl
The Haunted Girl 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Learning Monkey and Crocodile (The Harvester Series Book 7)
Learning Monkey and Crocodile (The Harvester Series Book 7)
by: Nick Wood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Where the Wild Ladies Are
Where the Wild Ladies Are 3.77 avg rating — 6,373 ratings
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Ghost Summer
Ghost Summer 4.20 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night
Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Intruders: Short Stories
Intruders: Short Stories 4.07 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond 3.93 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays
Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa
Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Stories from Africa 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Immortal Souls
Immortal Souls 3.73 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology
Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology 4.24 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Mojo: Conjure Stories
Mojo: Conjure Stories 4.12 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Report from Planet Midnight (PM's Outspoken Authors, #9)
Report from Planet Midnight (PM's Outspoken Authors, #9) 3.93 avg rating — 555 ratings
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Rococoa
Rococoa 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Black Power: The Superhero Anthology
Black Power: The Superhero Anthology 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! 4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Black Magic Women: Terrifying Tales by Scary Sisters
Black Magic Women: Terrifying Tales by Scary Sisters 4.16 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color
Nameless Woman: An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color 4.08 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 60 - Dec. 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! Special Issue 4.35 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Dying & Other Stories
Dying & Other Stories 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Let's Play White
Let's Play White 3.99 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue 4.12 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The Road to Woop Woop, and Other Stories
The Road to Woop Woop, and Other Stories 3.49 avg rating — 65 ratings
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This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire and the Fantastic
This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire and the Fantastic 4.02 avg rating — 418 ratings
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements 3.93 avg rating — 4,244 ratings
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A Killing in the Sun
A Killing in the Sun 3.90 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories 4.04 avg rating — 590 ratings
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Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird Western Collection
Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird Western Collection really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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In Morningstar's Shadow: Dominion of the Fallen Stories (Dominion of the Fallen, #0.5)
In Morningstar's Shadow: Dominion of the Fallen Stories (Dominion of the Fallen, #0.5) 3.55 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Blacktastic! Blacktasticon 2018 Anthology
Blacktastic! Blacktasticon 2018 Anthology 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Three Songs for Roxy
Three Songs for Roxy 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
by: Ellen Oh
3.77 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
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Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars
Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars 4.38 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy
Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy 4.04 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Scattered Among Strange Worlds
Scattered Among Strange Worlds 3.82 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany 3.46 avg rating — 90 ratings
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...and Other Disasters
...and Other Disasters 4.29 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Articles on African American Science Fiction Writers, Including: Octavia E. Butler, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, John M. Faucette, Nisi Shawl, Samuel R. Delany
Articles on African American Science Fiction Writers, Including: Octavia E. Butler, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, John M. Faucette, Nisi Shawl, Samuel R. Delany 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Stories of Ibis
The Stories of Ibis 4.24 avg rating — 1,227 ratings
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People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
People of Color Take over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Saiensu Fikushon 2016
Saiensu Fikushon 2016 3.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Speculative Japan #1)
Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Speculative Japan #1) 3.87 avg rating — 173 ratings
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The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales (Speculative Japan #2)
The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales (Speculative Japan #2) 3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Speculative Japan #3)
Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (Speculative Japan #3) 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Memory of Stone & Other Stories
The Memory of Stone & Other Stories 4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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