Don Sakers (June 16, 1958 – May 17, 2021)[1][2] was an American science fiction writer and fan who lived in Maryland, and wrote several novels and edited a short story collection.

Part of this, I feel, comes from the common experience of being thought "weird" by the general populace.... Another reason that fans seem comfortable with diversity stems from the nature of Science Fiction itself.

Sakers was editor of Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three (1990), an anthology of stories based on Leslie Fish's song of the same name; the SF Book of Days (2004);[5] and the Gaylaxicon 2006 Sampler.

[8] According to a Publishers Weekly review, Dance for the Ivory Madonna is about when; it's 2042, and the U.S. has split into three nations; special interest groups have their own House in Congress; artificial intelligence has kicked humans out of cyberspace; and the African continent, a hotbed of technological advancement, is united under a contract government called Umoja.

Making his way through this brave new world is a young African-American operative of a secret organization whose task is to avenge his father's murder and save humankind.Sakers described the book as being about "a lot of things: friendship, toleration, a celebration of the creative spirit, a paean to unconventionality.