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adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha: Octavia's Brood (Paperback, 2015, AK Press) 4 stars

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative …

Review of "Octavia's Brood" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

It is really difficult to rate a collection of short stories from different authors. I liked some, others not so much. What I love most of all is the idea of having a lot of people who work on social justice issues pause organizing and start imagining. But I was somewhat disappointed with how post apocalyptic everything was. Warnings are good and necessary. But we also need to all be thinking beyond what the last people living under ground might do after the world is destroyed. We need things to go toward. Some inspiration. Some hope of a world I would actually stick around for. Anything else is just too small. Basic survival of the species is not getting me out of bed in the morning.