In the spirit of Lightspeed Magazine's famous
People of Color Destroy Science Fiction series, here are 59 stories by 47 people of color that had scores of 2+ from RSR's
2017 Best SF/F list. That list contains the 287 most-recommended stories out of 842 covered, so the 59 stories by people of color make up around 21% of the best of 2017.
Some stories not reviewed by RSR are in the Best SF/F list because they were award finalists
🏆, included in year's best anthologies
📙, or recommended by other prolific reviewers
👍 (see
Q&A for SF/F awards, year's best anthologies, and prolific reviewers followed).
Readers asked us to make it easy for them to find good stories written by authors with diverse racial backgrounds, and that’s what this list is meant to accomplish (author identity plays no role in our ratings). This is the second year we've done this list (
2015-2016).