Some authors who spring to mind include:
Nalo Hopkinson
George Alec Effinger's Marid series (set in the Muslim
world)
Any of the authors who appear in the anthology "Dark
Matter_ (reviewed at
http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/thomas.html).
Steven Barnes
Tananarive Due
--
"Right now America needs a
statesman, but wants a cowboy."
--Gary Younge, "The Guardian,"
> I need to pick the collective brain of SF-LIT. A librarian on another list
> posted the following request, and I've mentioned a few authors like
> Virginia Hamilton, in addition to some adult authors as possibles (Octavia
> Butler, Samuel Delaney, Mike Resnick), but if anyone has any others to
> suggest, I'd be more than happy to pass them along!
>
> [Original request]
> *****
> One of my colleagues in Denver Public Schools needs your help. She has
> a principal who wants to increase the diversity in her fantasy section,
> and is looking for fantasy titles at a middle school level with
> characters who are either Hispanic or Black. She isn't interested in
> fairy or flocculates, but in novels and short story collections. She
> defines fantasy as elves, fairies, wizards, and magic, etc.
>
> I found a few things on the Amazon and B&N sites, but not much. The
> materials can be in either English or Spanish, but shouldn't include
> Spanish translations of fantasies with Anglo characters, such as the
> Merlin series by Barron, or HP, and so on.
> *****
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide!
>
> Sincerely,
> Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
> Washington Memorial Library, Reference Librarian
> Library Journal, Christian Fiction Columnist
> The Bookdragon Review, http://www.bookdragonreview.com
> All opinions expressed are my own.
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