Join the Carl Brandon Society, host Nisi Shawl, and a party room full of authors, editors, and academics as they come together to honor our deeply beloved and missed foremother with a reading of The Book of the Living, the sacred text of the religion found in Butler’s groundbreaking (and prescient) Parable series.

This virtual event is free. If you purchase a ticket you'll get a reminder via email before we begin.

Our Readers

• Jennifer Marie Brissett (Elysium, Destroyer of Light)
• Andrea Hairston (Redwood and Wildfire, Master of Poisons)
• Talitha McEachin
• Tochi Onyebuchi (Riot Baby, (S)kinfolk)
• Ayana Jamieson (Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network)
• Gerry Canavan (The Cambridge History of Science Fiction)
• Sheree Renée Thomas (Nine Bar Blues, Dark Matter)
• Michi Trota (SFWA Editor-in-chief, Senior Editor Prism Magazine)
• Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell (ONYX Pages Booktube Channel)
• Rebecca Holden (Strange Matings)
• Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Son of the Storm, David Mogo, Godhunter)
• Ajit George (Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft)
• Nalo Hopkinson 2021 SFWA Grand Master (House of Whispers, The New Moons Arms)
• Ben Winters (Underground Airlines, The Quiet Boy)
• Shelley Streeby (Imagining the Future of Climate Change)
• Kathleen Alcala (Spirits of the Ordinary)
• Caren Gussoff (The Birthday Problem)
• Grace Dillon (Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction)
• Steven Barnes (Twelve Days, Lion’s Blood)