Status Updates From Octavia's Brood: Science Fi...

Short stories with a similar vibe to Octavia Butler’s revolutionary science fiction. Much more readable than Emergent Strategy lol

Last couple are essays, woot. The Star Wars one was short, but dang was it a punch. America as both the rebels AND the empire, but most Americans not noticing that? Hell yeah.

Oooh okay, that last one is more along the lines of what I think of when I hear the term “visionary fiction.”

So many of these stories are… not that great, and easy to forget about.

Okay, but that last story was GREAT.

Very uneven collection, indeed.

I want these stories to be even MORE visionary, but so far they are all grounded in the horrors of our reality.

“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !