About the author

Minister Faust

<strong>Minister Faust is a novelist, print/radio/television journalist, blogger, sketch comedy writer, video game writer, playwright, and poet. He also taught high school and junior high English literature and composition for a decade.</strong><b><br></b>According to <em>The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science</em>, “Since 1960s, Afrodiasporic authors including Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Minister Faust have become luminaries within the SF community.”<br><br>The critically-acclaimed author of <em>The Alchemists of Kush</em> and the Kindred Award-winning and Philip K. Dick runner-up <em>Shrinking the Heroes,</em> Minister Faust first won accolades for his debut <em>The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad,</em> shortlisted for the Locus Best First Novel and Philip K. Dick awards.<br>Minister Faust’s short stories have appeared in <em>Cyber World,</em> <em>Edmonton on Location,</em> <em>Fiery Spirits,</em> <em>Griots: A Sword and Soul Anthology</em>, <em>Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond,</em> and elsewhere<em>. </em>iO9, <em>Adventure Rocketship, Canada 150: Stories of Reconciliation&nbsp;Connecting Us All,&nbsp;Engineer Magazine, The Globe &amp; Mail,&nbsp;</em>Greg Tate’s<em> Coon Bidness,</em> and more have published his articles.<br><br>Minister Faust's Afritopianism draws from myriad ancient African civilisations, explores present realities, and imagines a future in which people struggle not only for justice, but for the stars.