Adrienne Maree Brown
Paperback | Pages: 296 pages Rating: 3.95 | 2177 Users | 320 Reviews
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| Title | : | Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements |
| Author | : | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | March 15th 2015 by AK Press |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Feminism. Social Movements. Social Justice |
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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing visionary fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. This book brings 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 experiment with 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 foreword by Sheree Renée Thomas.Point Books Supposing Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
| Original Title: | Octavia's Brood |
| ISBN: | 1849352097 (ISBN13: 9781849352093) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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This incredible collection of stories is as important as it is fun and fascinating. Sure, not all the stories are brilliant or perfect, but most of them were compelling and many left me wanting more. I laughed out loud, cried, had my expectations continually exceeded, and was very sad to finish the last story. In fact I put off finishing this book for months because I didn't want it to end. The themes of change, struggle, spirit, and hope in the face of extreme challenges are reminiscent ofThis book calls upon the knowledge, creativity and experiences of folks fighting for social justice. The stories in here use many themes Octavia Butler focused on: community, interdependence, shaping the future, dreaming of the stars and surviving as a human race worth saving. There are stories of resistance and resilience (Hollow by Mia Mingus), characters who choose to fight for humanity despite great personal cost (Black Angel by Walidah Imarisha), and a warning about allowing history to be
Octavia Butler united us in a way, as one of her books suggested, as kin. She united all who have needed worlds where we could find inclusion, because for so many of us, painfully, we have met with some form of exclusion or another. During an interview once someone asked Octavia what made her write the way she did; what drove her. She responded, Youve got to write yourself in. To paraphrase, if you dont already see yourself in a world, then you write yourself into it. I cant say that I loved
One of the joys of reading science fiction is the vastness of the genre and the speculative nature of it. Science fiction is, more often than not, the genre that challenge mindsets, addresses social issues, prompts imagination of different realities. It asks the questions "Why are things this way" and "Why can't they be another way". By its visionary nature, it is well-suited tackle topics of social justice such as gender norms, sexuality, discrimination, work and labor, and more. So I was very
This is another anthology that has pushed me into the realm of deliberation, contemplation, and wonderment. If I taught an English course, several of these stories would be on the syllabus. If (when?) I teach an intro to archives course "The Long Memory" by Morrigan Phillips will be the first reading on the syllabus. I loved these stories because they took me out of the center of the world and put me on the edge of an experience that I fundamentally cannot relate to. But I the best manner of
Really incredible. Highly recommended.
+2 stars because I respect Walidah.I feel so many feelings about this book. You know when you want to like something SO MUCH, because it's something your friend made, or something on your team did, but no matter how hard you try, you can only see the things to work on? That was this book. The folks who wrote these stories are all strong bad-asses in their activism, but write spec-fic like they need to clobber the reader with their politics. I'm already on board with the politics, that's why I'm
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