December 12, 2023
Join Mandy Hiscocks in conversation with organizer and author Aric McBay. They’ll be talking about Aric’s new novel Inversion, social movements in science fiction, and how utopian writing can help us imagine better futures.
This is the very first in-person event for Inversion, and a live recording for RadiOPIRG!
On a mysterious green world renewed by fire, vibrant collectivist communities have long lived in harmony with both its strange ecosystem and each other—until the day imperialist forces arrive….
Flowering with possible new ways of life, Inversion is a tale of social struggle set in a completely unique universe, whose unexpected nature will surprise and delight. Aric McBay weaves a tale in the visionary spirit of Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed.
(Read more at https://www.aricmcbay.org/books/)
“A masterful worldbuilding feat.” —Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
“Aric McBay’s Inversion is a masterpiece of utopian resistance…” —Octavia Cade, author of The Impossible Resurrections of Grief
Mandy Hiscocks has been involved in activism and organizing for many years, and is an avid reader of science fiction.
Aric McBay is an organizer, organic farmer, and author of seven books including the social movement manual Full Spectrum Resistance and the climate fiction novel Kraken Calling.
Inversion is part of the new Black Dawn Series of political SF from AK Press, which also includes books by authors adrienne maree brown and Margaret Killjoy.
