Activist Adrienne Maree brown writes that the work of social change requires “science fictional behavior”— which is surely all the more true in the context of a global pandemic. To help us think through this crisis, we hear from Cadwell Turnbull, whose critically acclaimed first book, The Lesson, portrays an alien sort-of-invasion centered on his native US Virgin Islands. In addition to his storytelling, Turnbull is an activist working through social change through solidarity economics. He explores what it means to be a speculative fiction writer in especially science fictional times