
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-family: CenturyGothic;" class="">Sci-fi, horror, colonialism and race. Sign-up</span><br class="" style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentTopClass" style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="border-left-style: none; color: inherit; padding: inherit; margin: inherit;"><a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/book-club-launch/" class="">https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/book-club-launch/</a></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="Apple-Mail-URLShareWrapperClass" style="font-family: CenturyGothic;"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-59008 size-full" src="https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png" alt="an Indigenous woman on the left, wearing a headband, and a Black woman on the right" width="1200" height="790" srcset="https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png 1200w, https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png?resize=300,198 300w, https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png?resize=768,506 768w, https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png?resize=1024,674 1024w, https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png?resize=400,263 400w, https://www.sciencefriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/new-suns-authors.png?resize=575,380 575w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto; -webkit-user-drag: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease-in-out 0s; width: 780px; color: rgb(47, 46, 44); font-family: "Proxima Nova W01 Alternate", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: "Egyptienne F T_R W01", Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Authors Darcie Little Badger and Aisha Matthews. Credit: Darcie Little Badger/Omar B Rimawi</figcaption></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">

<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dr. Cathy Thomas<br class="">(she/her/hers)<br class="">UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow<br class="">UC Riverside, Creative Writing<br class=""><a href="mailto:cathy.thomas@ucr.edu" class="">cathy.thomas@ucr.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://cathythomas.academia.edu" class="">cathythomas.academia.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://blackartistsforfreedom.com" class="">blackartistsforfreedom.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">“If you are silent about your pain, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">they’ll kill you </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">and say you enjoyed </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">it.” - Zora Neale Hurston</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>

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