#blackspecfic

🌲📚 Eco-horror that cuts deep 📚🌲

@allison_mick’s debut novel Humboldt Cut is getting love from the @sfchronicle, and for good reason. Set in Northern California’s redwoods, this gripping eco-horror blends folklore, labor history, grief, and vengeance into a haunting, genre-bending story you won’t forget.

Described as “brisk,” “beguilingly strange,” and really entertaining, Humboldt Cut asks big questions about capitalism, violence, and the living earth, while keeping you on the edge of your seat.

✨ Plus, catch Allison Mick at Sistah Scifi’s Wine Down Wednesday (March 4, 5–6pm, https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events)!

👉 Grab your copy now at www.sistahscifi.com or check it from your #locallibrary

Big News! Isis Asare Named Executive Director of SFWA

🎉 Major Milestone 🎉

We’re thrilled to share that Sistah Scifi’s founder, Isis Asare, has just been named the Executive Director of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA)!

From Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines to leading one of the genre’s most iconic organizations, her commitment to inclusive, transformative storytelling just got an even bigger platform. 🚀📚

🖤We see this as a win for community, creativity, and the future of the genre.

Isis will be attending the Seattle WorldCon. Attend a fireside chat with Isis Asare and SFWA Board President Kate Ristau. Isis will also be at the 2026 Baltimore Book Festival.

@SFWA_Inc, @seattle2025worldcon, @baltimorebookfestival, @kateristau, @isisasare

🍷✨Happening TODAY at 5PM PST / 8PM EST on IG Live!

This Wednesday, we’re going live with @justinckey, author of The Hospital at the End of the World.

In a near future ruled by AI and corporate medicine, a young medical student must uncover the truth behind his father’s mysterious death, and a deadly illness spreading among those raised under machine rule.

What happens when healthcare is no longer human?

📅 Feb 25 ⏰ 5PM PST / 8PM EST 📍 IG Live

🤖✨ NEW RELEASE ALERT!

The AI Incident by J.E. Thomas

The Wild Robot meets Restart when Colorado's unluckiest foster kid battles a rogue AI robot at school. Malcolm Montgomery is the new kid at Shirley Chisholm Charter Middle School. In no time at all, he’s been slapped with the weird kid label. Is it because he's a foster kid who's been in nine homes? Or maybe because he burps when he gets nervous…which is often? Malcolm has a plan to finally get adopted by a forever family before it's too late. But then on Visiting Professionals' Day, his school invites Dr. Alphonse Hatch, president of Hatch-ED—one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence companies in the state—to give a presentation. Dr. Hatch brings his AI-powered robot, and events get set in motion that create...THE INCIDENT.

An irresistible MG novel about the role of AI in schools and in our lives…and what it means to be human.

Edited by Sarah A. Macklin (The Violent Vixens Ride Again, Soul Food Wars), Midnight Mystics will feature works from Stephanie Williams (Nubia and the Amazons, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur), Saly Lockheart (Image, DC, Marvel), Phoebe Holmes (High Spirit, webcomic), Toshi J (Midnight Comics), Ryan Oakley (contributing artist Won't Back Down), and many more!

💫 Support the Kickstarter today to help bring these mystical visions to life: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/844735737/midnight-mystics-an-anthology-of-fantasy-comics-by-black-w.

Let’s fund Black fantasy. Let’s uplift Black women creators. Let’s make magic.