In radical movements we so often fight against something instead of building something else. We absolutely have to do it, but we don't want to spend … - Walidah Imarisha

We want organizers and movement builders to be able to claim the vast space of possibility, to be birthing visionary stories.

Changes will occur that we cannot even begin to imagine, and the next generation will be both utterly familiar and wholly alien to their parents. We believe this is what it means to carry on Octavia Butler's legacy of writing visionary fiction.

Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in speculative fiction. All organizing is science fiction. Organizers and activists dedicate their lives to creating and envisioning another world, or many other worlds-so what better venue for organizers to explore their work than science fiction stories? That is the premise behind the book you hold in your hands.