Known as the Nerdiest City in America and as the Hub of Speculative Fiction, few cities offer as much as Atlanta by way of the weird, the fantastical, the scary and the out right off the chain.
Atlanta also happens to be one of the Blackest cities in the world, so the anthology ATLiens had to happen.
Featuring fantastic and funky tales set in Atlanta by the authors from the ATL State of Black Speculative Fiction Creators Collective, ATLiens features a heavy dose of Urban Fantasy, a healthy helping of horror, with a little techno-thriller sprinkled in. All Blacktastic stories; all Blacktastic representation of the ATL.
Here is the TOC:
- Bomani and the Case of the Missing Monsters – Balogun Ojetade
- Play the Wraith – Azziza Sphinx (Jessica Hosten)
- Blerd and Confused – Alan Jones
- Piggyback – Milton Davis
- Not Your (Magical) Negro – Marcus Haynes
- Of Home and Hearth – Kortney Watkins
- My Dinner with Vlad – Kyoko M
- Another Day in the A – Violette L. Meier
- The Messiah Curse – Gerald L. Coleman
ATLiens releases very soon. Stay tuned!
Posted by Balogun on November 3, 2017 in Adventure, Afrofuturism, atlanta, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Story, Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy and tagged afrofuturism, ATLiens, black speculative fiction.
About Balogun
Balogun is the author of the bestselling Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within and screenwriter / producer / director of the films, A Single Link, Rite of Passage: Initiation and Rite of Passage: The Dentist of Westminster.
He is one of the leading authorities on Steamfunk – a philosophy or style of writing that combines the African and / or African American culture and approach to life with that of the steampunk philosophy and / or steampunk fiction – and writes about it, the craft of writing, Sword & Soul and Steampunk in general, at http://chroniclesofharriet.com/.
He is author of eight novels – the Steamfunk bestseller, MOSES: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman (Books 1 & 2); the Urban Science Fiction saga, Redeemer; the Sword & Soul epic, Once Upon A Time In Afrika; a Fight Fiction, New Pulp novella, Fist of Afrika; the gritty, Urban Superhero series, A Single Link and Wrath of the Siafu; the two-fisted Dieselfunk tale, The Scythe and the “Choose-Your-Own-Destiny”-style Young Adult novel, The Keys. Balogun is also contributing co-editor of two anthologies: Ki: Khanga: The Anthology and Steamfunk.
Finally, Balogun is the Director and Fight Choreographer of the Steamfunk feature film, Rite of Passage, which he wrote based on the short story, Rite of Passage, by author Milton Davis and co-author of the award winning screenplay, Ngolo.
You can reach him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Afrikan.Martial.Arts; on Twitter @Baba_Balogun and on Tumblr at www.tumblr.com/blog/blackspeculativefiction.
Chronicles of Harriet 
Sounds like a great collection! Looking forward to it!