“All Is Always Now”: Slavery, Retrocausality, and Recidivistic Progress in Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star (1966) Available to Purchase

W. Andrew Shephard is a PhD candidate in English literature at Stanford University. He will begin a position as Assistant Professor in African American Literature at the University of Utah in the fall of 2019. His current research project focuses on African American speculative fiction authors and their engagements with history. He is also the author of the chapter “Afrofuturism of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” in the recently published Cambridge History of Science Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2019).