"So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy" is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves. It s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology.

The book depicts imagined futures...