Mothership

Bill Campbell is the author of Sunshine Patriots, My Booty Novel, and the anti-racism satire, Koontown Killing Kaper. Along with Edward Austin Hall, he co-edited the groundbreaking anthology, Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. He also co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany with Nisi Shawl, Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction and Fantasy with Francesco Verso, and APB: Artists against Police Brutality with Jason Rodriguez and John Jennings. His Afrofuturist spaceploitation graphic novel, Baaaad Muthaz (with David Brame and Damian Duffy) was released in 2019. His historical graphic novel with Bizhan Khodabandeh, The Day the Klan Came to Town, was released by PM Press in 2021. Campbell lives in Washington, DC, where he spends his time with his family and helms Rosarium Publishing.Alabama escapee and lifelong Southerner Edward Austin Hall, a graduate of Tulane University, writes journalism, poetry, and fiction. His writings about comics and comics creators have appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now, and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. His forthcoming first novel is titled Chimera Island.

• Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall – IntroductionVictor LaValle - I Left My Heart in SkaftafellN.K. Jemisin - Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough TomorrowsErnest Hogan - Skin Dragons TalkKawika Guillermo - The Last of Its KindThaddeus Howze – BludgeonIbi Zoboi - The Farming of GodsCarmen Maria Machado - The Hungry EarthRabih Alameddine - The Half-WallLauren Beukes - Unathi Battles the Black HairballsCharles R. Saunders – AmmaChinelo Onwualu - The HomecomingRan Walker - The VoyeurVandana Singh – Life-podTobias Buckell - Four EyesSilvia Moreno-Garcia - The Death CollectorKiini Ibura Salaam – Bio-AngerIndrapramit Das - The Runner of n-VamanaMinister Faust - In the Belly of the CrocodileLinda D. Addison - Live and Let LiveS.P. Somtow - The Pavilion of Frozen WomenRochita Loenen-Ruiz - Waking the God of the MountainC. Renee Stephens - Culling the HerdJoseph Bruchac - Dances with GhostsDarius James - Un Aperitivo Col DiavoloAndaiye Reeves - Othello PopSofia Samatar - A Brief History of Nonduality StudiesDaniel José Older - Protected EntityAnil Menon - The Parrot’s TaleEden Robinson - Northern LightsTade Thompson - One Hundred and Twenty Days of SunlightCarlos Hernandez - The Aphotic GhostFarnoosh Moshiri - The PillarGreg Tate - Angels + Cannibals UniteLisa Allen-Agostini - A Fine SpecimenJaymee Goh - Between IslandsGeorge S. Walker - Fées des DentsTenea D. Johnson - The TakenKatherena Vermette - The BuzzingJunot Díaz – MonstroNisi Shawl - Good Boy