Octavia's Brood
Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
$28.39
- Paperback
298 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2015
Summary
Whenever we imagine a world without war or injustice, we are engaging in speculative fiction. Radicals and activists devote their lives to envisioning such worlds, and then go about trying to create them. This collection brings together 20 such stories, as well as essays by Tananarive Due and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Named for the great Octavia Butler, giant of science fiction and a rare woman of colour in her field, this engaging and enlightening collection is the first book to explore the connections between radical science fiction and movements for social change.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849352093 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849352097 |
| Author: | Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown |
| Publisher: | AK Press |
| Imprint: | AK Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 298 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 142mm x 204mm |
Walidah Imarisha
Walidah Imarisha: Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator and spoken word artist. She is the author of the collection of poetry Scars/Stars. Imarisha has also facilitated writing workshops, for students in grades three through twelve, in community centers, youth detention facilities, and women’s prisons.
Adrienne Maree Brown is a 2013 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow writing science fiction in Detroit. She has also received a 2013 Detroit Knight Arts Challenge Award to run a series of Octavia Butler based science fiction writing workshops. Adrienne has helped launch a loose network of Octavia Butler and Emergent Strategy Reading Groups for people interested in reading Octavia’s work from a political and strategic framework, and is building with Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network on other ways of extending Butler’s work.
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