The importance of Speculative Fiction for understanding Cultural Awareness.

For decades and decades the sci-fi genre has been white washed like many places in our society. Slowly that has changed because of a growing subgenre know as Speculative Fiction. My favorite authors include Octavia Butler, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, and many others. Black women who have stormed the genre and not looked back and they have written some of the most important literature of the 20th and 21st century.

Then I found this article about the way a U of O professor is incorporating this into an Anthropology class. It’s a great read.

To me Speculative Fiction has helped take the genre of sci-fi and cemented it as being Literature level writing that needs to be a bigger part of the conversation. These writers are having a huge impact.

https://cas.uoregon.edu/news/exploring-cultural-differences-through-science-fiction