Arts
Meet two literary pioneers we need now: Novelist and Marvel Comics scribe Nnedi Okorafor, whose groundbreaking Africanfuturism demands big-screen renderings (fittingly, two of her books are being adapted as series by HBO & Hulu). Nebula Award winner Jeff VanderMeer, author of the bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (adapted into the film Annihilation) also is no stranger to meeting (and anticipating) the moment: Esquire called him “the prophet of climate fiction.”