Introduction: Looking for the Invisible --
Sister Lilith / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers --
The Comet / W.E.B. Du Bois --
Chicago 1927 / Jewelle Gomez --
Black No More (excerpt from the novel) / George S. Schuyler --
separation anxiety / Evie Shockley --
Tasting Songs / Leone Ross --
Can You Wear My Eyes / Kalamu ya Salaam --
Like Daughter / Tananarive Due --
Greedy Choke Puppy / Nalo Hopkinson --
Rhythm Travel / Amiri Baraka --
Buddy Bolden / Kalamu ya Salaam --
Aye, and Gomorrah ... / Samuel R. Delany --
Ganger (Ball Lightning) / Nalo Hopkinson --
The Becoming / Akua Lezli Hope --
The Goophered Grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt --
The Evening and the Morning and the Night / Octavia E. Butler --
Twice, at Once, Separated / Linda Addison --
Gimmile's Songs / Charles R. Saunders --
At the Huts of Ajala / Nisi Shawl --
The Woman in the Wall / Steven Barnes --
Ark of Bones / Henry Dumas --
Butta's Backyard Barbecue / Tony Medina --
Future Christmas (excerpt from the novel The Terrible Twos) / Ishmael Reed --
At Life's Limits / Kiini Ibura Salaam --
The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel) / Anthony Joseph --
The Astral Visitor Delta Blues / Robert Fleming --
The Space Traders / Derrick Bell --
The Pretended / Darryl A. Smith --
Hussy Strutt / Ama Patterson --
Racism and Science Fiction / Samuel R. Delany --
Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction / Charles R. Saunders --
Black to the Future / Walter Mosley --
Yet Do I Wonder / Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid --
The Monophobic Response / Octavia E. Butler.