![]() Me & my father huddled together for X-Files and Star Trek (TNG and TOS) and Tales From the Crypt and there was never that critical moment where I was like, “hmm, where are the black people?” Perhaps the color-blind ideology of the times? No, I was watching TV during a time when there was a slew of black folks on the screen…in comedies and urban dramas. ![]() In fact, while reading everything in every library of every school I attended, I never really noticed that none of the protagonists in the books I liked looked like me. It was pretty plain to everyone that I was going to be some kind of writer/artist combo and probably of the fantasy/sci-fi variety, but if you had interviewed me back then and asked me about other black spec fic authors I’d have been like, “umm what does that look like?” I even illustrated it! I have gotta dig that up one of these days and try to make some money off it (kidding, but not really). ![]() Because I regularly devoured hard sci-fi books and astronomy texts, I prided myself on its scientific accuracy. It was about a young girl who headed the first (wo)manned mission to Venus. ![]() I wrote my first real sci-fi short story at around seven years old. ![]()
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