Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

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. Contents: Foreword by Sheree Renée Thomas Introduction by Walidah Imarisha Revolution Shuffle by Bao Phi The Token Superhero by David F. Walker the river by adrienne maree brown Evidence by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Black Angel by Walidah Imarisha The Long Memory by Morrigan Phillips Small and Bright by Autumn Brown In Spite of Darkness by Alixa Garcia Hollow by Mia Mingus Lalibela by Gabriel Teodros Little Brown Mouse by Tunde Olaniran Sanford and Sun by Dawolu Jabari Anderson Runaway Blackout by Tara Betts Kafka's Last Laugh by Vagabond 22XX: One-Shot by Jelani Wilson Manhunters by Kalamu ya Salaam Aftermath by LeVar Burton Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson Homing Instinct by Dani McClain children who fly by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Star Wars and the American Imagination by Mumia Abu-Jamal The Only Lasting Truth by Tananarive Due Outro by adrienne maree brown