In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
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In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
Host Oliver Brackenbury examines the evolution of Afrofuturism in speculative fiction with writer and educator Quentin VerCetty Lindsay.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
BSAM
Quentin VerCetty
“Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement” by Isiah Lavender III
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler
“Black to the Future” essay by Mark Dery
Samuel R. Delaney
“The Famished Road” by Ben Okri
Sun Ra
June Jordan
Nnedi Okorafor
Nollywood
“Brown Girl Begins” Dir by Sharon Lewis, based on the book “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Nalo Hopkins.
“Kindred” by Octavia Butler
See You Yesterday
N.K. Jemisen
“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James
The Last Angel of History
Crumbs
“Dirty Computer” & “Archandroid” by Janelle Monae
Sophia Stewart
Black Kirby
Umbrella Academy
John Jenning's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower
“How Long 'til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemisen
“Cosmic Underground: Northside” by Quentin Vercetty
“The Comet” by W.E.B. Dubois, and his essay on double consciousness.
Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
