Lucas, Neil Quentin

Overview "The mission, I would say, of How to Lose a Planet is to create a future where Black people are centered. As a science-fiction fan, I was taken by Carl Sagan's critique of Star Wars: A New Hope: "They're all white. The skin of all the humans in Star Wars, oddly enough, is sort of [points to himself] like this." I wanted to create a story set in a future where the lives of Black people don't just matter, they thrive. And not just Black in the sense of having melanin, but Black in the sense...