Just saw that #UCRiverside is hosting a free two-day Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction—all be streamed via Zoom! (April 4th & 5th, a.k.a. today & Saturday!)

https://events.ucr.edu/event/eaton-conference-on-speculative-fiction

With a keynote from Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade on their cosmic opera based on the work of #OctaviaButler?

Yes, please! #sciFi #speculativeFiction

[edited to make this present tense on Friday]

OK, I’m #VirtueSignalling a bit.

But I’ve genuinely never read any #OctaviaButler, and felt I should do something about that.

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.

— Octavia E. Butler

#OctaviaEButler #OctaviaButler #Earthseed