This collection's premise is that all organizing is science fiction, as both begin from envisioning another world could be possible. All the stories in this collection come from individuals who’ve dedicated their lives to making change, and many of the contributors to this collection had never written fiction before. While I love this idea, I think it led to a collection that felt a little more unfinished or unpracticed than some other anthologies I’ve read. I still enjoyed the reading experience, and would recommend this collection to folks looking for something a little different, especially fans of SFF or readers aiming to engage in thinking about social justice and organizing.⁣
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My favorite stories were The Long Memory by Morrigan Phillips, set in a world where the "Memorials" are employed to keep the world’s memory, at a time where the existence of such a memory is dangerous to the powerful; Small and Bright by Autumn Brown, a story of a person from an underground city who is punished by exile to the uninhabitable aboveground; Hollow by Mia Mingus, about a community of disabled people on a planet separate from the world of the “Perfects”; Runaway Blackout by Tara Betts, set in a world where shapeshifting has dramatically changed the face of modeling; and Homing Instinct by Dani McClain, in which a woman grapples with where to settle after a government order requires all people to register their permanent location and cease traveling. Finally, the collection ends with another favorite, The Only Lasting Truth: The Theme of Change in the worlds of Octavia E. Butler by Tananarive Due, a slightly edited transcript of a lecture given in 2010, that has me fired up about my re-goal to read more Butler in 2020!