Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (781 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DPSB46M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 375 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 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.. Organizers and activists envision and try to create such worlds all the time
Octavia would be very proud. As a fan of speculative fiction and an aspiring writer in that domain, Octavia Butler has always been my matriarch. She is the writer that may not have been my first inspiration, but she certainly left a deep, lasting impression on my soul. Her work is so seminal and I want to weep every time I encounter a reader or writer unaware of her contributions. Octavia is as important in my mind to the fabric of “blackness” as any Civil Rights activist. Her work empowers and calls us to be great. Octavia’s faith in human. Alexander Smith said Poor Execution. This was a book that I wanted to love, really badly. Speculative/science-fiction and social justice? That's a great theme for a collection of short-stories. Unfortunately, it was the writing that came up short.Many of the stories have some great ideas, but they're never developed. I understand that these are short-stories, but to be satisfying to read, it still has to be a completely realized vision. Despite the unique ideas present in some of the stories, I found reading the entire book to be a bit of a slog, given the inconsist. "we must be able to dream of a different one - is probably my favorite framework for anti-racist" according to K. Benson. This is one of the most phenomenal selections of speculative fiction short stories that I've ever read. The framing of the book - that all activism is science fiction or speculative fiction and that to change the world, we must be able to dream of a different one - is probably my favorite framework for anti-racist, anti-capalist, feminist speculative fiction. Phenomenal considerations of race, difference, gender, disability and ability, caplitalism, the prison industrial complex, and other issues. This is probably the best book I