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The Space Traders
| Author: | Derrick Bell |
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Basic Books, 1992 |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | First Contact |
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Synopsis
This work is a selction from author Nisi Shawl's: A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction, an annotated list of 40+ black science fiction works that are important to your understanding of its history. Read more about this selection below.
- Tor.com Blog: Old and Cold: "The Space Traders" by Derrick Bell
Extraterrestrials arrive on Earth and offer to the United States gold, safe nuclear power and other technological advances, in exchange for the government's handing over of all black US citizens. The story posits that the people and political establishment of the U.S. would make such a transaction and pass a referendum to enable it.
First appeared in Faces at the Bottom of the Well which is a book of non-fictional essays.
This novelette may be found in Dark Matter.
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