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Cover Art by Griffin Ess JOURNAL of SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 2018 Sponsored by the Museum of Science Fiction Washington, DC cover art by Griffin Ess JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " MOSF Journal of Science Fiction Volume 2, Number 2 31 January 2018 ISSN 2474-0837 Managing Editor: Heather McHale, Ph.D. Assistant Managing Editor: Aisha Matthews Editors: Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.; Thomas Connolly, Ph.D.; Barbara Jasny, Ph.D.; Jandy Hanna, Ph.D.; & Melanie Marotta, Ph.D. Copyeditors: Matias de Carnevale & Angela Tvarozek Layout Design: Andy Davies & L. Paul Miller Editorial Board: Nancy Kress, M.A., M.S.; Charles E. Gannon, Ph.D.; Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Ph.D.; Terence McSweeney, Ph.D.; & Marleen S. Barr, Ph.D. Cover Art: "Threads and Circuits" By Griffin Ess Reflections: “A Glitch in the Matrix”: A Reflection on Shabazz Palaces’ “Welcome to Quazarz” or a New Wave of Afrofuturist Music Videos By Lidia Kniaź Nnedi Okorafor’s Afrofuturism and the Motif of Hair By Melanie Marotta !1 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Articles: Power and Vulnerability: Black Girls’ Magic in Black Women’s Science Fiction By Jalondra Davis Tricknology: Theorizing the Trickster in Afrofuturism By Amandine Faucheux and Isiah Lavender III Promises of Uncertainty: A Study of Afrofuturist Interventions into the Archive By Johan Lau Munkholm Blood, Soil, and Zombies: Afrofuturist Collaboration and (Re-)Appropriation in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring By Sarah Olutola Frozen Journey: Science Fiction, Blacks, Race, and the Limits of Speculative Practice By John Gordon Russell Sponsored by the Museum of Science Fiction & hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries. Museum of Science Fiction University of Maryland Libraries PO Box 88 Alexandria, VA 22313 7649 Library Lane College Park, MD 20742 Open Access Policy This journal provides immediate open access to its content in keeping with the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. !2 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Table of Contents Foreword to the Special Issue on Afrofuturism by Aisha Matthews……………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Complete Cover Art by Griffin Ess………………………………………………………………………………………..…… 7 Reflective Essays: “A Glitch in the Matrix”: A Reflection on Shabazz Palaces’ “Welcome to To Quazarz” or a New Wave of Afrofuturist Music Videos by Lidia Kniaź…………………………………………………………………….……………………... 8 Nnedi Okorafor’s Afrofuturism and the Motif of Hair by Melanie Marotta………………………………………………………………………………… … 10 Articles: Power and Vulnerability: Black Girls’ Magic in Black Women’s Science Fiction by Jalondra Davis ……………………………………………………………………………………. 13 Tricknology: Theorizing the Trickster in Afrofuturism by Amandine Faucheux and Isiah Lavender III……………………………….………………..… 31 Promises of Uncertainty: A Study of Afrofuturist Interventions into the Archive by Johan Lau Munkholm………………………………………………………………………… … 47 Blood, Soil, and Zombies: Afrofuturist Collaboration and (Re-)Appropriation in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring by Sarah Olutola………………………………………………………………….………………….. 64 Frozen Journey: Science Fiction, Blacks, Race, and the Limits of Speculative Practice by John Gordon Russell……………………………………………………………………….…… 82 Books in Review by Courtney Novosat, Tom Lubek, and Paul Piatkowski…………….…………….…………… 104 About the Contributors…………….…………….…………….…………….………………….. 117 !3 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Letter from the Editor Hello, lovely readers! The new issue is here—our first themed issue, focusing on Afrofuturism. We selected this theme because several of our editors are engaged in critical work in this sphere and because the Journal of Science Fiction is committed to inclusivity in scholarship. I was (pleasantly) shocked by the level of response to the call for papers: we received far more submissions for this issue than for any other, and we’re delighted to receive so many thoughtful, provocative manuscripts. (In a related story, we will be seeking editorial and copy editing staff in the near future!) Because Afrofuturism is outside of my own area of expertise, both Aisha Matthews and Melanie Marotta have taken more leadership in this issue. Please do check out Aisha’s foreword—which has details about the pieces in this issue as well as our choice of theme—and Melanie’s reflective essay on Nnedi Okorafor. The “Reflective Pieces” category is new for this issue; it may become a regular part of the journal in the future. These essays, which are relatively brief and not peer-reviewed, provide targeted examinations of a specific idea or text. Let us know what you think of the format, and we’ll consider whether to continue to include these shorter pieces. In other news, the Journal of Science Fiction wants to recognize our editor, Thomas Connolly, who defended his dissertation in December at Maynooth University in Ireland and is now Dr. Thomas Connolly. Congratulations, Thomas! Finally, a note about Escape Velocity, the Museum of Science Fiction’s annual convention. This year’s convention will be May 25-27 at the Marriott Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, MD. In addition to serving as our assistant managing editor, Aisha is also the director of literary programming for Escape Velocity. Aisha is making sure that the literary programming track is crammed with exciting panels and events for any reader who loves SF, so we hope to see you there! You can get check out more details about guests and events—and buy tickets—at www.escapevelocity.events. —Heather McHale, Ph.D. Managing Editor MOSF Journal of Science Fiction !4 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Foreword to the Special Issue on Afrofuturism By Aisha Matthews The Journal of Science Fiction’s growing interest in and commitment to representing diversity in SF literature has afforded us an opportunity, through this special issue, to foreground a set of beliefs and practices crucial not only to the future, but to the present as well. Continuing the ongoing discourses initiated at last year’s Escape Velocity Conference, this special issue aims to recognize the invaluable contributions that black authors and black cultures have made to science and speculative fictions. Since its inception in Mark Dery’s landmark 1994 essay “Black to the Future,” the term Afrofuturism has come to mean a variety of different things. To some, it represents a genre of literature and film. For others, it encompasses dance, fashion, and music as well. Many have argued that Afrofuturism reflects only the lives and circumstances of African-Americans, while more recent scholarship has fully integrated African, Afro-Caribbean, and other Afro-Diaspora projects into the larger narrative of Afrofuturism. For the purposes of our journal, we have characterized Afrofuturism as a set of aims that foregrounds images of futurity involving any and all ethnicities within the larger black community. Coined to address the startling lack of racial diversity in mainstream science and speculative fiction, the Afrofuturist movement seeks to provide alternate visions of the future that include and integrate black life and its various cultural specificities alongside advancements in fields such as medicine, technology, interstellar travel, artificial intelligence, and prospective utopias and dystopias. To challenge the notion that the solution to racial strife is to eliminate racial difference, or to otherwise flatten the rich cultures and histories which differentiate racial and ethnic identities, Afrofuturism enlists our help in imagining both solutions to current racial tensions and positive, productive images of blackness which reimagine or otherwise diverge from the legacy of slavery. This issue of the MOSF’s Journal of Science Fiction requested submissions reflecting Afrofuturistic modes of thought, analyses of Afrofuturist texts, and unconventional readings of the cultural present projected into the incumbent future. Fortunately, the scholarly SF community heard our call and arrived in full force, offering us a wealth of critical perspectives, theories, and reflections to choose from. Despite their varying focal points and differing rhetorical strategies, the pieces selected for this special issue share a common thread. They explore what it means and will mean to live in a world dominated by racial consciousness and the historical memory of slavery. Further, they look at the genres of science and speculative fiction as sites for the artistic expression of such concerns, and more positively, hopes, about what our future will look like. Addressing the works of authors such as Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson, the musical contributions of Shabazz Palaces, !5 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " and the projects of historical reconstruction, #BlackGirlMagic, and Afrocentric technological development, this collection of critical essays and reflection pieces offers commentary on the contemplation of embodiment, racism, self-image, and most germane to our mission, their implications for science and speculative fictions. !6 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Cover Art ! "Threads and Circuits,” by Griffin Ess 11 inches x 14 inches, 90lb hot press paper, inks & watercolors !7 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE FICTION Volume 2, Issue 2, January 2018 ISSN 2472-0837 ! " Reflections ! “A Glitch in the Matrix”:
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