Science Fiction/ Visionary Fiction Reading Group Summer Season

“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

—The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

Summertime reading has a special place in our imaginative processes. This August and September, join us to read visionary fiction together, challenge our understandings, and explore how we can avoid getting eaten. The name visionary fiction derives from the legacy of Octavia Butler and others today sharing and learning from science fiction. We draw on this work to better envision social justice, a post-capitalist future, and paths to get there. This process works best together in a circle reading together.

Join us Monday, August 8 at 5 pm for the summer season of MEP’s Visionary Fiction reading group.  We will choose what novel to read together that evening. We will read at a pace that suits the group and supplement with suggestions for short stories, related non-fiction, film, and more.  Science fiction background prerequisites? None.

Once you register, we will add you to our Slack channel for sharing suggested reading and select short stories. (Fine to join after the first session.)

Mondays 5:00-6:30 pm, 8 weeks.

photo: July 2022 photo from the James Webb telescope: the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324, in the Carina Nebula. Thanks to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI