“The Comet” was first published in 1920 as the final chapter of his autobiographical collection of poems and essays Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. Du Bois: the well-known and recently misspelled critical thinker and race theorist. Yes, as I note in the original Crash Course, that W.E.B. Our focus this column is on “The Comet,” a science fiction short story by W.E.B. The Carl Brandon Society’s website seems a good home for both the Crash Course and my subsequent expansions, so with the agreement of Tor.com I’m republishing them here on a monthly basis. The original essay became a popular reference–apparently there wasn’t anything else like it available. As I explained in this column’s first installment, this series is an expansion of my Fantastic Stories of the Imagination article titled “A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.” (That essay is now hosted here and on my personal website.) At Tor.com’s invitation I agreed to delve more deeply into each of the 42 titles on that list in turn.
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