BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION

A New Way to Play Ki Khanga!

KI KHANGA: THE SWORD AND SOUL ROLE PLAYING GAME puts you in the role of a character of your liking in a world of mystery and magic; of villainy and victory; of sword… and soul.

Will you delve for lost artifacts in the ruins of ancient temples? Strap on beaded armor and an nkisi necklace to battle undead legions as they storm your city upon the backs of skeletal camels, or defend your village from…

The First Steamfunkateers Adventure Is Now Available!

The Haunting of the House of Crum, the first adventure for the Steamfunkateers Steamfunk Role Playing Game, beyond the adventure in the core manual, is available NOW!

Players send their characters into a terrifying haunted house that once belonged to the creator of the potato chip, George Crum (nee George Speck).

Will they make it out alive, or with their sanity intact? YOU decide.Choose your…

Steamfunkateers, the Steamfunk Role Playing Game, is now available!

Baas Bello, the most intelligent person on earth, races to prevent mad scientist, The Alchemist, from assassinating George Washington Carver… Harriet Tubman and John Henry team up to do battle with an army of steam-powered Confederate automatons before they turn the tides of the Civil War… Robert Charles hunts Were-Rats in New Orleans… Mad scientists, Vampires, Air Pirates, daring Adventurers,…

A Brand New Funk: Biofunk comes to Afrofuturism!

It all started with Steamfunk – a style of writing and visual aesthetic that combines the culture and approach to life of people of African descent with that of the Steampunk aesthetic. Next came Dieselfunk– fiction, film and fashion that combine the style and mood of Dieselpunk – Steampunk’s grittier sibling – with African and African-American inspiration. It is a name I came up with in 2012,…

Afrofuturism meets Post-Apocalypse with Initiate 16!

“Initiate 16 lay paralyzed, face-down on a glass table. Scores of blood-stained, shiny metallic needles, attached to snake-like arms, jutted from her back, neck, arms, legs, and even the backs of her heels.  Her whole back was peeled open, revealing her spine.  The bright lights in the ceiling above her shone on the slick, pink sinew of her back and upon several links of bone that composed her…

The Blacktasticon Kickstarter is LIVE!

The Blacktasticon Kickstarter is live! Support this Blacknificent gathering of the Black Fantastic today!  

“Balogun Ojetade has created a fresh, imaginative and humorous tale in Jagunjagun Lewa. The story is filled with action and drama, a perfect display of Mr. Ojetade’s genre-blending style. I’m eager to see what happens next, and you will be, too.” —Milton Davis, Bestselling Author and Publisher “The back story promises action and adventure…the artwork is phenomenal…and this comic actually had me…

Ki Khanga has always had its heroes. Men and women of honor, who risk it all for life, love, freedom, or to beat back the evil that threatens to creep, crawl, or fly from the Cleave and consume the world.  Then there’s Qiq. Skilled. Brilliant. Deadly. For the right price. Qiq is the bounty hunter called when no one else is bold enough, crazy enough, or greedy enough to do the job, but he doesn’t…

Omari Ket, the rogue and mercenary who squeezes out of scrapes he just can’t seem to avoid getting into, created by Milton Davis. Qiq, the half-human/half-elemental bounty hunter – skilled and deadly… for the right price, who takes on the jobs no one else can… or will, created by Balogun Ojetade. We are all drawn to anti-heroes – and in the cases of Omari Ket and Qiq, I use “hero” lightly – with…

Step Into A World: Portal Fantasy in Black Speculative Fiction

The “portal fantasy,” where somebody walks through a magical door (or wardrobe) into a fantasy world, has become a terrible cliche. Nowadays, writers often begin describing their books by saying, “It’s not portal fantasy.” What most of them mean is that their portal fantasy stories don’t follow the old rules of the medium, such as those found in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Alice in…

Sword and Soul meets Cyberfunk in the Beatdown!

The coolest videogame you’ll ever READ! “A Single Link NEVER Breaks!” Remi Korede is a martial artist and a fan of The Beatdown, a popular MMORPG set in the fantasy world of Ki Khanga. In The Beatdown, players fight each other in the circles of sand and soil to prevent full-scale wars and the wrath of a vengeful Creator who almost destroyed the world when war on earth spilled over into the…

Dembo’s Ditty Available NOW!

You are Dembo Daji, a Maroki – a Griot. But you weren’t always. You were once a struggling DJ in the near future. Home for you was a tiny efficiency in the Pittsburgh Projects – a 50-story housing development in the crime-ridden, ultra-violent area of Pittsburgh, in southwest Atlanta, Georgia… until you finally saved up enough credits to purchase the U.R.E. – the Universal Reality Engine – the…

When Afrofuturism Meets Sword & Soul! Why YOU should be reading LitRPG

A short while ago, an author I had not yet heard of joined the State of Black Science Fiction Facebook Group. After introducing himself, the brother – Dr. Aleron Kong – informed us that he was the “Father of LitRPG.” Someone in the group asked “What, exactly, is LitRPG?” Dr. Kong just said “It’s a cool new genre of science fiction that mashes up MMORPG video gaming with fantasy or science fiction…

Why Your Child Loves Zombies And What YOU Can Do About It

When I was a child, the things in fiction and films that most terrified children and adults alike were giant bugs, aliens, and possession or replacement by a demonic spirit, ghost or some other type of “body-snatcher.” However, Zombies have always been there too, lurking in the shadows, at times replacing one of the top three. Today, Zombies may not be the most feared things in fiction and film,…

Siafu vs. The Horde available NOW!

You are STILL the Peoples’ Champion, Defender of the Defenseless; the Afrikan Ant… the Siafu! By day, you are a not-so-mild-mannered 13 year old 9th Grader – yeah, you’re smart, and cool, too. But when duty calls, YOU are ready to risk your life to defend the defenseless; ready to stand up for those afraid to, or unable to, stand up for themselves. YOU are a superhero! YOU choose how the story…