Dr. Gladys West built the mathematical foundation for GPS from a Navy lab in 1956. One of four Black employees. A hidden figure no more.
95 years. What a life. Rest well, Dr. West. 🤎
#DrGladysWest #SistahScifi #BlackExcellence

✨ Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨

Signed Nubia: The Awakening at @206Langston.

Join Black Futures Book Club x Langston Seattle on April 27, 6–7:30 PM PST, in person + online, discussing The Abbott graphic novel series by Saladin Ahmed.

Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events!

#SistahScifi

🍷 WDW is TONIGHT. Tamika Thompson on The Curse of Hester Gardens w/ Sasha Fountain. 5PM PST / 8PM EST.
🩸 Brioxy x Sistah Scifi Book Club also tonight at 6PM PST.
👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events
#SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

📚 Double pub day!

The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice + They Made Us Blood and Fury by Cheryl S. Ntumy are out now.

Two worlds. Both hitting different.

Shop at www.sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors

📚20 years of Black speculative fiction writers, editors, poets, and readers pulling up together.
Mo*Con 2026 is FREE and Isis Asare will be there representing The Carl Brandon Society!

April 30 – May 3 · Indianapolis
mocon2026.eventbrite.com

#SistahScifi

🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse is our audiobook pick.
Hugo & Nebula winner. New Sixth World novella.

Out now.

👉🏾 Stream via Librofm libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
or borrow free on LibbyApp

#SistahScifi #IndigenousFuturism

Happening today. 🍷📚

Vincent Tirado on You Should Have Been Nicer To My Mom at Wine Down Wednesday. 5 PM PST.

Brioxy × Sistah Scifi Short Stories Book Club. 6 PM PST.

👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events
🔗 More: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/...
#SistahScifi #BlackSFF

🌌Lalovavi, an Afrofuturist opera set 400 years in the future🌌

Immortality, betrayal, and a destiny no one can take from her.

🗓July 9 & 11 | Music Hall, Springer Auditorium, Cincinnati

👉🏾Tickets: sistahscifi.com/pages/events

#SistahScifi #Lalovavi #BlackFutures

🍷 WDW is tonight with Shanora Williams + Meci Reads discussing Mayhem and the Mortal.

Plus D.E.A.R. in Oakland Sat April 4

and Sapphic Romantasy at SF Public Library May 14.

Pull up.
👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #WineDownWednesday

📚 Pub day. TODAY. 🤎

✨ Legendborn Collector's Edition - Tracy Deonn
✨ The Curse of Hester Gardens - Tamika Thompson

Two Black authors.
Two reasons to pull up at sistahscifi.com.

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #PubDay #SupportBlackAuthors

👉🏾 Preorder alert.
House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase is coming May 26.

A writer disappears inside a colonial mansion. A true crime podcast. A sister unraveling a truth worse than she imagined.

Signed copies available now.

📚 sistahscifi.com

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Preorder

🎉 Sistah Scifi Giveaway Alert!

@strangehorizons.bsky.social is giving away a $25 gift card 🔥

Entries open between March 29 and April 1.

To enter:
📖 Follow @strangehorizons.bsky.social
💬 Reply with your favorite piece they’ve published

Show up, show love, maybe leave with a win ✊🏾

#SistahScifi

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: Sundown Girls by L.S. Stratton.

A Black teen. A mountain town with a sundown past. A ghost at the window.
History that refuses to stay buried.🩸

Stream via Librofm libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
or borrow free on LibbyApp

#SistahScifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek

📚Five preorders. Zero excuses📚

🤎The Divining Season
🤎Legendborn Collector's Ed.
🤎Curse of Hester Gardens
🤎Year of the Mer
🤎Audiofuturism

Secure your copies 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Preorder

📚What if the greatest minds in history never left? 📚

Veronica G. Henry's The People's Library is a near-future reckoning with memory, power, and who gets to be remembered. 📚🌌

👉🏾Grab your copy at sistahscifi.com

#SistahScifi #ThePeoplesLibrary

🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick.

Eco-horror, a Black woman returning home to haunted redwoods, and an inheritance of violence against the land. Dark and atmospheric.🌲🩸

Grab via @LibroFM 🎧
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

#SistahScifi #BlackHorror #EcoHorror

🐉 Floods. Locusts. Tornados. And 12 dragons to befriend before it all falls apart.

Prosper with Dragons from Nicky Drayden and Suyi Davies Okungbowa is dropping soon.
👉🏾Preorder at sistahscifi.com

#SistahScifi #BlackTabletop #ProsperWithDragons

🚀 SIGNED copies of To Boldly Go are now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at Chapter510!

A powerful kids book about Lt. Uhura’s real impact on diversifying space & STEM.

📍Visit Chapter 510 and grab yours today!

#SistahScifi #NichelleNichols #StarTrek #BlackInSTEM #ChildrensBooks

📚 Pub Day pull up. Mayhem and the Mortal by Shanora Williams is HERE.

Dark fantasy, a mortal on a mission, a ruthless assassin, and misfits doing the most.

Signed copies at sistahscifi.com 🔥

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Romantasy #PubDay #DarkFantasy

📰✊🏾 Since 1827, the Black Press has told the stories mainstream media refused to touch. That same spirit builds Black futures. Every book on our shelves is proof.📚

👉🏾 Explore the full collection at www.sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi #BlackPressDay #BlackSpeculativeFiction

🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

1960s NASA, a cursed museum, and a murder dressed up as an accident. 🌌
The Starseekers by Nicole Glover is your audiobook this week.

Grab via @LibroFM 🎧
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #AudiobookOfTheWeek

Georgia wants to criminalize librarians.
A congresswoman is defunding a library over books that aren't even in the children's section.
Censorship always comes for Black and Indigenous stories first. We stand with librarians. 🤎
#SistahScifi #BannedBooks #Library

🍷 Wine Down Wednesday is TONIGHT with L.S. Stratton discussing Sundown Girls 🌑

Plus events lined up through April. Swipe through and pull up with your Sistah Scifi Siblings

👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events

#SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨ Tomi Adeyemi just announced her first standalone and it is NOT what you expect.

Dark academia. Secret societies. A Nigerian American girl at Dartmouth making deadly bargains.

The Siren drops September 29, 2026. Preorder now at sistahscifi.com🖤

#SistahScifi #TomiAdeyemi #BlackSFF

Happy Pub Day 📚🔥

You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado

A family will reveals a terrifying secret:
one of them is a demon.

Trapped in a mansion during a storm, twelve hours of accusations, secrets, and violence unfold.

Get your copy at www.sistahscifi.com

#SistahScifi #PubDay

🍷📚 03/04/2026 — #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday

Allison Mick joins us to discuss Humboldt Cut, a darkly humorous eco-horror set in Northern California’s redwood forests.

🌲✨ Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events
🔗Check out our latest newsletter for more: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/...

#SistahScifi

PUB DAY 🔥

- River of Bones and Other Stories by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
- The Ephemera Collector by @stayseajackson.bsky.social

📚Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favourite #library.

#SistahScifi #PubDay #SpeculativeFiction #SFF #Library

Two events to tap into:

📚 Sistah Scifi Graphic Novel Club — Brielle and Bear by @salomeydraws.bsky.social (Feb 28, online: sistahscifi.com/pages/events)

🎬 Black Arc: Bending Memory + Vision (Feb 28, LA, free w/ RSVP)

Books and films centering bold Black storytelling.

#SistahScifi #BlackFutures

🍷 Wine Down Wednesday

AI governs society. Corporate medicine controls the future.

Join us Feb 25 • 5PM PST / 8PM EST on IG Live with Justin C. Key to discuss The Hospital at the End of the World.

When machines run everything… who protects humanity?

🔗 mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/...

#SistahScifi

🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week ✨🎧

Reaper of Souls by @renathedreamer is the dark fantasy finale your TBR has been waiting for.

🎧 Listen now on @libro.fm.

📚 Request a copy at your favorite #Library or order at www.sistahscifi.com / bookshop.org/shop/SistahScifi.

#SistahScifi