The Comet (short story)

"The Comet" is a science fiction short story written by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1920. It discusses the relationship between Jim Davis, a black man, and Julia, a wealthy white woman, after a comet strike unleashes toxic gases that kill everyone in New York except them.

Originally published as the tenth chapter of Du Bois's Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil, "The Comet" was reprinted in the 2000 anthology Dark Matter: The Anthology of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers. It helped lay the foundation for a paradigm known as Afrofuturism.

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