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And Brother From Another Planet are legendary movies...

I have seen it. The same actor that did Terminator 2. I just Wikied him, Joe Morton. But how much science is reasonably described in movies or television fiction? They are more popular but less informative and thought provoking than books.

Unfortunately Black writers are not usually very scientific. I think Octavia Butler's Wild Seed is great, probably read it 3 times. But I regard it more as fantasy than SF. I have tried to read Delaney's Dahlgren 3 times because he is such a renowned Black author, but never made it half way. I just don't get it.

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I have seen it. The same actor the did Terminator 2. us Wikied him, Joe Morton. But how much science is reasonably described in movies or television? They are more popular but less informative and thought provoking.

Unfortunately Black writers are not usually very scientific. I think Octavia Butler's Wild Seed is great, probably red it 3 times. But I regard it more as fantasy than SF. I have tried to read Delaney's Dahlgren 3 times because he is such a renowned Black author, but never made it half way. I just don't get it.

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All I have ever wanted was to be a writer. Unfortunately, the editors have decreed otherwise. But 'if it doesn't kill you....' The years of rejection have forced me to walk in paths and directions I probably would not have if I'd been successful, to probe the limits of my ability and find a way past them and to look at things with an ever more critical and creative eye. The best is yet to come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Faucette

I read his Crown of Infinity and Age of Ruin way back when. I could not tell from the stories that he was Black. It had not crossed my mind when I read them. I always remembered the CoI story but forgot the title. I did not recall that I had read AoR until I read it again a year ago.

Mack Reynolds was a more successful writer in the 60s, but he was White. I do not doubt if Fawcett had written this:

Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds
http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32390/32390-h/32390-h.htm

It would not have gotten published.

I think Crown of Infinity was as good as most of the stuff Reynold's did.

But thinking about it more critically now they were adventure stories designed to get him into the market. CoI even has an anti-Communist incident in it.

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PS - This is the first time I have found a picture of him:
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/faucette-jr-john-m-1943-2003
 

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