Derrick Bell’s short story “The Space Traders” reads like a historical account, as he divides the narrative by indicating the date of each incident as the event unfolds from 1 January to 17 January. In this way, the text has a journalistic air, which makes it difficult to identify a particular bias beyond the historical…
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We Won’t Go Lightly: Science Fiction and “Space Traders”
Derrick Bell’s short story “Space Traders,” even the outlandish science fiction strikingly mirrored reality. Even though the story began in the realm of science fiction, with aliens arriving on the shores of the East Coast, it quickly turned to conversations among business and political leaders of the United States that I can legitimately imagine happening….
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