Octavia's Brood

Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Author: Walidah Imarisha
Secondary Author: adrienne maree brown
ISBN: 9781849352093

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an attempt to inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on new ways of understanding ourselves, the world around us, and all the selves and worlds that could be. The collection is rounded off with essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal, and a preface by Sheree Renée Thomas. PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA'S BROOD:"Those concerned with justice and liberation must always persuade the mass of people that a better world is po

Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 2015-03-23

Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Fiction / Political, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Anarchism

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