The speculative fiction subgenre of Afrofuturism has attracted considerable attention in recent years. While being well-known among African American Studies scholars and science fiction writers since the term was coined by Mark Dery in his landmark essay, “Black to the Future,” the term has increasingly become a catch-all term for the growing presence of Blackness within the realm of speculative fiction. Hit films such as Black Panther, the memory of Milestone Comics from the 1990s, and the growth of Black characters in mainstream science fiction, have given more people reason to know about and debate Afrofuturism. Reynaldo Anderson’s new book, Read more