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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.
The Midnight Hour
The Midnight Hour is a prestige Afrofuturist anthology series exploring what happens when ordinary people are pushed into extraordinary moments where reality begins to fracture. Time loops. Memory deteriorates. Technology becomes invasive. Cities mutate. Love survives the end of the world. Each episode exists at a threshold, the exact moment between what was and what comes next, forcing its characters to confront impossible choices, buried truths, and the parts of themselves they can no longer outrun.
These are morality tales for modern audiences, told through the perspectives of voices historically pushed to the margins (BIPOC communities, women, LGBTQIA individuals, the elderly, the forgotten, and the overlooked). Blending science fiction, horror, fantasy, surrealism, and intimate human drama, the series explores justice, trauma, grief, survival, identity, memory, and hope through stories that are as emotionally grounded as they are visually unforgettable.
Guiding viewers through each descent into the unknown is creator T. Aaron Cisco, appearing in a modern Rod Serling-inspired role. His opening introductions provide thematic framing, cultural context, and personal insight, creating a signature throughline that grounds each episode’s bold speculative premise in emotional truth.
Season One adapts stories from Rod String Nail Cloth, culminating in a feature-length finale based on All the Blue is Beige.
At midnight, everything changes.
And sometimes… that’s when the truth finally reveals itself.
THE UNBANISHED (Epic Afrofuturist Fantasy saga)
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, animated, 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.
It’s Lit with T. Aaron Cisco
(“Reading Rainbow for Grown Ups”)
We built a generation of readers with Reading Rainbow. Then we stopped talking to them as adults. BookTok proves people still crave stories, but no one has created a television show that makes reading feel cool, accessible, communal, and judgment-free for adults.
Until now.
It’s Lit with T. Aaron Cisco is a premium unscripted series redefining reading culture for modern adults. T. Aaron Cisco travels across America helping adults reconnect with reading through culture, storytelling, humor, and human connection.
America has a literacy crisis nobody talks about. 54% of U.S. adults read below a 6th-grade level 21% are functionally illiterate. 1 in 4 adults didn’t read a single book last year. Only 10% of adults who need literacy support receive it. Low literacy costs the U.S. economy $2.2 trillion annually. This isn’t just about reading, it’s about access, opportunity, and agency.
We don’t have a literacy problem because people don’t want stories. We have a literacy problem because nobody is meeting people where they are.
It’s Lit with T. Aaron Cisco is going to change that.
All underlying screen and derivative rights are fully controlled.
T. Aaron Cisco 