Ryka Aoki (Light from Uncommon Stars), Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds), and Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout) discuss the explorations of race, gender, and identity posed in their science fiction and speculative fiction novels, asking what aspects of being human are universal—even for cyborgs, interstellar aliens, and multiverse explorers. In conversation with Emma Ito.
Presented as part of the 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, a program of Virginia Humanities. Learn more at VaBook.org.
