There's an annual convention I go to where I have been asked more than once on a panel called HOW SCIENCE FICTION SAVED MY LIFE. And we speakers mean it literally.

And since I can't go to that con this year, my convention family is bringing the con to me, by helping me host a speculative fiction book signing at my bookstore.

I really love how you turned the focus of this piece from the Self to the Other.

It *is* coming home.