How long does it take to read Octavia's Brood?
Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown, Je Nie Fleming
Octavia's Brood by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown, Je Nie Fleming takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 285 pages, about 78,375 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 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 inject a healthy dose of imagination and innovation into our political practice and to try on 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 preface by Sheree Renée Thomas.
Subjects: Science fiction, Speculative fiction, Social justice, Influence, Social change, Fiction
