For this week, let’s continue the collective reading journal. For Round 2, pick three different stories from N.K. Jemisin’s How Long ’til Black Future Month. Each of your commentaries should be around 250 words. As you write, think about the continuities between the worlds that Jemisin depicts and our own world. What do these worlds share in terms of setting or environment? How are characters driven by similar goals? How are their challenges and conflicts similar to our own? In other words, here’s the question I want you to consider as you reflect on and write about three new stories: in writing about other worlds – – in writing “science fiction” – – in what ways is Jemisin writing about our own world and offering us a critical perspective on this world?