T. Aaron Cisco

FOR PRODUCERS, AGENTS & DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVES

T. Aaron Cisco is a bestselling Afrofuturist speculative fiction author with twenty published novels and collections, seven of which have reached #1 on Amazon in niche bestseller categories. Cisco is currently seeking representation and development partnerships to adapt select titles into prestige television and streaming series. The work is highly visual, character-driven, and designed for serialized storytelling, blending Afrofuturism, political drama, and original mythology.

AFTERLIGHT (Prestige Anthology Series)

AFTERLIGHT is a prestige Afrofuturist anthology series exploring the lives of ordinary people after reality bends,  when time fractures, memory shifts, technology intrudes, or the world quietly ends. Each episode examines what lingers in the aftermath, and the choices we make, the truths we inherit, and the light that refuses to go out, connected by a guiding voice that frames the questions we’re often too afraid to ask. Guiding the audience through each episode is the creator himself, T. Aaron Cisco, appearing briefly in a Rod Serling–esque role. His introductions provide thematic context, personal insight, and a human throughline, anchoring the series’ bold speculative concepts in lived experience and emotional truth. Season One adapts stories from Rod String Nail Cloth, culminating in a feature-length finale based on All the Blue is Beige. Together, these stories examine justice, trauma, memory, grief, survival, and hope through Afrofuturist, surreal, and genre-bending lenses.

Future Seasons

AFTERLIGHT is designed as a multi-season franchise with a fully written pipeline:

THE UNBANISHED (Epic Afrofuturist Fantasy saga)

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THE UNBANISHED is a prestige Afrofuturist fantasy series based on The Land of Bone Trilogy by T. Aaron Cisco.

In a civilization where peace is not earned but enforced through sacred social castes, harmony is a carefully maintained illusion—and violence is simply hidden, ritualized, and justified. A brilliant scholar forced to confront a truth her entire life has been built to deny. A legendary warrior who has spent her life enforcing the system’s will. A an ancient, unknowable mystic being who remembers the world before it was broken. Together, they begin to unravel the mysteries and machinery beneath their civilization, exposing the men, magic, and myths that sustain it, and igniting a revolution that threatens to dismantle not just a government, but the very idea that order must be built on sacrifice.

Unlike traditional fantasy rooted in Arthurian myth, THE UNBANISHED draws from Afrofuturism, French folklore, and West African mythology for a gripping, character-driven, morally complex epic about power, belief, and the systems we build to justify both.

In tone, it sits alongside Game of Thrones and Westworld, with the political tension of Andor…grounded, unflinching, and deeply human.

STEAL THE F**KING MOON  (Darkly Comedic Sci-Fi)

When two reluctant outlaws accidentally trigger the collapse of a galactic empire, they’re thrust into an interstellar race to escape the chaos they unleashed. STEAL THE F**KING MOON is a high-concept, high-velocity Afrofuturist satire blending cosmic spectacle with biting humor. Rain and Cygnus are  an odd-couple pair of rebels who stumble into infamy after exposing a corporate conspiracy tied to lunar mining and planetary control. Each episode expands the scope of rebellion, blending social commentary, absurdist bureaucracy, and jaw-dropping action. Beneath the spectacle lies a critique of power, colonialism, and media manipulation in a galaxy that looks alarmingly like our own. Audiences crave smart, rebellious genre storytelling that punches up, and STEAL THE F**KING MOON captures that energy. Its Afrofuturist perspective and gallows humor make it as topical as it is binge-worthy, ideal for platforms seeking prestige-with-personality sci-fi.  

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