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Meaning and Discovery

Curated by Evan Variano

About the Curator
Evan Variano is a Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley and part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities. He works to improve the student experience and teaches the physics of water.

About the Folio

Discovery comes from hard work and creative perspective. Just as engineers pursue and use technological discoveries, every human community is pursuing and using existential discoveries. This Folio examines some of the hard work and creative perspectives that people have used to discover meaning. You are invited to explore the great lengths to which people go in their search for meaning. From romance to horror, nature writing to history, this Folio has a place for you to meet people and discuss!

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How Long 'til Black Future Month?

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of all time, the first writer in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards. But before her career took off with The Broken Earth trilogy, Jemisin struggled to find herself as a young reader and writer. She felt like people of color had no place in visions about the future, from The Jetsons cartoons she watched as a kid to science fiction magazines she read as an adult. Instead of waiting for someone else to do it, Jemisin taught herself how to write the stories she wanted to read. The stories in this collection explore the inequalities and injustices of our own time while looking to different futures, some more hopeful, some worse than our own. “Now I am bolder, and angrier, and more joyful; none of these things contradict each other,” Jemisin concludes. “Now I am the writer that short stories made me.”

Evan Variano

Professor at UC Berkeley
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