New York: Warner, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first anthology to focus on the presence and influence of black writers in speculative fiction - it includes 25 stories (many of them original) three novel excerpts, and five essays. The stories range from Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" (1887) to an excerpt George S. Schuyler's "Black No More" (1931) as well as Octavia E. Butler's "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"and and Derrick Bell's "The Space Traders" (1992) Other contributors include Stephen Barnes, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Ishmael Reed, Walter Mosley, Robert Fleming, Jewelle Gomez, Akua Lezli Hope, Honore Fanonne Jeffers, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Evie Shockley, and more. Notes on contributors. xiv, 427 pp. ISBN: 0-446525839.