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

By Walidah Imarisha (Editor), adrienne maree brown (Editor), Sheree Renee Thomas (Foreword by)
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By Walidah Imarisha (Editor), adrienne maree brown (Editor), Sheree Renee Thomas (Foreword by)
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Whenever we envision a world without war, prisons, or 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 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. These visionary tales span genres—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical realism—but all are united by an ...

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