Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

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Title

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

This edition

"Dark Matter: Reading the Bones." Ed. Sheree R. Thomas. New York: Warner Books, 2004. xii+400 pp.

Table of contents

● Sheree Renée Thomas / Introduction

Fiction
● Ihsan Bracy / ibo landing
● Cherene Sherrard / The Quality of Sand
● Charles R. Saunders / Yahimba’s Choice
● Nalo Hopkinson / The Glass Bottle Trick
● Kiini Ibura Salaam / Desire
● David Findlay / Recovery from a Fall
● Douglas Kearney / Anansi Meets Peter Parker at the Taco Bell on Lexington
● Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu / The Magical Negro
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Jesus Christ in Texas
● Henry Dumas / Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
● Kevin Brockenbrough / ‘Cause Harlem Needs Heroes
● Pam Noles / Whipping Boy
● Ibi Aanu Zoboi / Old Flesh Song
● Walter Mosley / Whispers in the Dark
● Tananarive Due / Afternoon
● Tyehimba Jess / Voodoo Vincent and the Astrostoriograms
● John Cooley / The Binary
● Jill Robinson / BLACKout
● Charles Johnson / Sweet Dreams
● Wanda Coleman / Buying Primo Time
● Samuel R. Delany / Corona
● Nisi Shawl / Maggies
● Andrea Hairston / From “Mindscape”
● Kalamu ya Salaam / Trance

Essays
● Jewelle Gomez / The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Transcription of a Panel at the 1997 Black Speculative Fiction Writers Conference Held at Clark Atlanta University)
● Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu / Her Pen Could Fly: Remembering Virginia Hamilton
● Carol Cooper / Celebrating the Alien: The Politics of Race and Species in the Juveniles of Andre Norton

● Contributors
● Copyrights and Permissions
● Acknowledgements

See also

• "Dark Matter", ed. Sheree R. Thomas (2000), the original volume to which the present volume is a sequel.

Item Number

A0380

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