Reading Time: 12 minutes In December of 2021, an itinerant sci-fi and fantasy gathering called Worldcon came under scrutiny for accepting a sponsorship from an American defense company.1 Critics remarked that the conference had clearly lost its way. Its guests love fiction that treats space and war as backdrops to imagine a better world. The Worldcon organizers, they argued, had forgotten this context, figuring guests would go “Spaaace, ooh, aahhh.” They had taken money from an organization tha...