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Reading Science Fiction Politically
Mon, April 8 @ 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group reconvenes April 15 for a new Spring season. Watch this space for coming reading selections and use the website contact page for questions and suggestions.
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Join us this winter to read five landmark, award-winning novels, and novellas using science fiction to shine a sharp light on social and political conditions today. Our authors fluidly extrapolate from capitalism today for encounters with the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, gender, relationships, race and class. Each has science with the science supporting envisioning and speculation about a just way forward and the obstacles in getting there.
Our group reads each book in sequence split over two to four weeks. Our discussions expand from themes in the fiction to critical topics of today’s struggles–war, elections, climate, and more. Whether you have read a lot of classic science fiction, join us if you read fiction passionately and enjoy talking about it, sharing reviews and multimedia, and using reading and writing fiction to deepen our political commitments.
Winter selections (still in formation!)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philp K Dick (start here)
- Translation State, by Ann Leckie
- Network Effect, by Martha Wells
- This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- The Deep, by Rivers Solomon
Inquire if you’d like to register for some and not all books.
Convened by Steve Backman, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction and part of the MEP exec team