Religion and Science Fiction began today. I said something like the following which is something like something William Gibson once said which I wrote down but which doesn’t appear to be available on the Internet hardly anywhere anymore: Science fiction functions as the oven mitts with which we can begin to handle the burning hot casserole of what’s actually happening to ourselves and others in the situation we call the world.
Parable of the Sower was my first Butler. I read it in 2017, and it terrified me. It was as profound a reading experience as I have ever had, right up there with reading The Road as I took care of my newborn boy.
That experience solidified for me a belief that people of color, perhaps especially women of color, have a perspective on America that I will never have direct access to, but that I have been desperately in want of for too much of my life.
Oh boy. I feel so glad to have been given my reading list for the semester. I've only read Left Hand of Darkness. And then, only Kindred by Octavia Butler. I'm in! All that's left is for you to post a link so I can join into this class virtually. ;)
Good luck on another term!
Wonderful. Glad to know all this goodness is afoot.
Parable of the Sower was my first Butler. I read it in 2017, and it terrified me. It was as profound a reading experience as I have ever had, right up there with reading The Road as I took care of my newborn boy.
That experience solidified for me a belief that people of color, perhaps especially women of color, have a perspective on America that I will never have direct access to, but that I have been desperately in want of for too much of my life.
Oh boy. I feel so glad to have been given my reading list for the semester. I've only read Left Hand of Darkness. And then, only Kindred by Octavia Butler. I'm in! All that's left is for you to post a link so I can join into this class virtually. ;)