Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
It stirred slightly. Wires attached to a string array had hundreds of ant-like robots marching to and from its head. The wires led heavenward into the ceiling, through it, and into a room directly above which housed computers, monitor/sensor analyzers, and banks of image generators.
Until only recently, the World Fantasy Award, both the winner’s trophy and the nomination pins, were a bust of the author H.P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, someone who clearly had zero compunctions against being the worst he could be under the most specious of excuses, is well-known for pointedly toxic, virulent racism.
Chadwick Boseman was known for bringing larger than life black characters to the screen. This essay by ZZ Claybourne examines why Boseman’s T’challa stands out.
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