Missing some fantasy and sci-fi featuring POC leads in your life? Check out some of the comics and anthologies from Rosarium Publishing!
The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria: “Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. A collection of sci-fi and fantasy Latino short stories about losing and reclaiming cultural identity.”
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany: “From surrealistic visions of bucolic road trips to erotic transgressions to mind-expanding analyses of Samuel R. Delany’s influence on the genre—as an out gay man, an African American, and possessor of a startlingly acute intellect—this book conveys the scope of the subject’s sometimes troubling, always rewarding genius.“
The SEA is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia: “The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat people find a new home on the edge of a different dimension. Technology and tradition meld as the people adapt to the changing forces of their world.“
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism: This anthology focuses on fantasy and sci-fi through a non-white and postcolonial lens, with stories including folklore and narratives from a varieties of cultures - Haitian, Japanese, African-American, Mexican, Native American, and so many more.
DayBlack: “Beneath the polluted clouds of DayBlack, Georgia, a man exists. After hundreds of years of killing to survive, he no longer wants to simply exist…he wants to live. DayBlack is the story of Merce, a former slave who was bitten by a vampire in the cotton fields. “
Chadhiyana - In the Company of Shadows: “Chadhiyana, the Tal-Ifatiir order’s first female member, holds a horrible secret from her past and is plagued by troubles she’s afraid to reveal. As the company journeys to Aghal-Paraag’s prison, one misfortune after another befalls them. What can be the source of their troubles? The witch? The demon lord himself? Perhaps it is Chadhiyana or the secret she has sealed behind her closed lips.“