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Recommendations for BAME authors? (lemmy.ca)
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I've been told I need to read more sci fi by non-white authors and looking at my shelves I think it's true and I want to try something new. But I realised I sadly couldn't think of any authors off the top of my head! Can anyone recommend anything?

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[–] greenfish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor

[–] nkiruanaya@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I second Octavia Butler.

On my list to read, but haven't yet, is N.K. Jemisin.

A fairly new author is Malcom Turnbull. He was on a radio interview a while back and the book (The Lesson) sounded interesting so I gor it and read it.

A lot of the sci-fi books I've been reading lately have black [main] characters. I don't know if those authors are black though. I have to look into it.