Our World, Shifted
Join Tochi Onyebuchi, Yiming Ma, and Moniquill Blackgoose as they discuss building speculative fiction worlds by defamiliarizing the present. They'll explore how temporal displacement, cultural reimagining, and environmental transformation, can create both the deeply familiar and the startlingly new.
| Where: | Integrated Learning Center Room 130 (Seats 143, Wheelchair accessible)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - Integrated Learning Center (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror |
| Moderator: | Betsy Labiner |
Panelists
Yiming MaBorn in Shanghai, Yiming Ma is the author of "These Memories Do Not Belong to Us," which was a Spotify Editor's pick and featured in The Washington Post, CBC Books, Strait Times, and Electric Literature....
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Tochi OnyebuchiAward-winner, Tochi Onyebuchi, is the author of "Goliath," a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, and the young adult novel, "Beasts Made of Night," which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African....
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Moniquill BlackgooseMoniquill Blackgoose is the bestselling author of "To Shape a Dragon’s Breath," which has won both the Nebula and Lodestar Awards. She is an enrolled member of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe and a lineal descendant of Ousamequin Massasoit....
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Books:
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
A Constellation Novel
Yiming Ma
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
HarperCollins Publishers
August 2025
ISBN 9780063413481
224 pages
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To Ride a Rising Storm
The Second Book of Nampeshiweisit
Moniquill Blackgoose
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Random House
January 2026
ISBN 9780593498309
464 pages
Buy nowA young indigenous woman and her dragon fight for the independence of their homeland in this epic sequel to the bestselling and multi-award-winning To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, “a remarkable novel that is bound to be a staple of fantasy shelves for years to come” (BuzzFeed).
Anequs has not only survived her first year at Kuiper’s Academy but exceeded her professors’ admittedly low expectations—and passed all her courses with honors. Now she and her dragon, Kasaqua, are headed home for the summer, along with Theod, the only other native student at the Academy.
But what should have been a relaxing break takes a darker turn. Thanks to Anequs’s notoriety, there is an Anglish presence on Masquapaug for the first time ever: a presence that Anequs hates. Anequs will always fight for what she believes in, however, and what she believes in is her people’s right to self-govern and live as they have for generations, without the restrictive yoke of Anglish rules and social customs. And fight she will—even if it means lighting a spark that may flare into civil war. More/less
