Vilandra &
Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown

gifted by a good friend and something i wanted to read for a while! a beauuutfiul book filled with some good stories to get lost in. i love entering worlds dreamed up by authors with such a broad range of experiences and stories. a lot of these verge on corny but that's okay <3 still enjoyed it, especially mia mingus's writing!

Originally read from Sept 26-29, 2015 Reread from March 26-27, 2016 My book club selected Octavia's Brood as our next book to discuss, so I needed to refresh myself on all the stories. Octavia's Brood remains an exceptionally powerful social justice project. While the stories aren't necessarily the most polished, they resonate with power and potential. It is a project most worthy of Octavia Butler's legacy, and a fantastic, transformative read!

Book of short stories inspired by Octavia Bulter's work. Some were fantastic and some really fell short and annoyed me. Made me not want to read the rest tbh.

I didn't finish the book, so the review must be read in that context. I really struggle with short stories, and that was my primary problem with it. I really liked some of the stories, but the bulk of them just couldn't hold my interest because of their short length.

I was excited to read this book, as a young reader I was heavily influenced by the works of Octavia E. Butler and I wanted to see how other people had been impacted and how science fiction could be used as a medium for discussing social justice movements. Some stories were better than others and some weren't as fully fleshed out as I would have liked. One highlight is actually a portion of LeVar Burton's novel, "Aftermath", which I had previously read. It's probably the most "Butleresque" of everything in the collection. Other highlights are "The Token Superhero", "Revolution Shuffle" and the hilarious "Sanford and Sun".