The Invincible
Stanislaw Lem
Arriving on a distant planet in search of a sister ship that has disappeared, the crew of The Invincible discover a new form of life: tiny, autonomous robots that seem to have evolved into expert killing machines.
Radical work
On Beyond Survival
You were supposed to give me salvation
On Beyond Survival
Beyond Survival
Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Featuring essays and interviews from grassroots activists and practitioners of transformative justice, this collection offers clear, practical, and brave advice about how to respond to violence and crises in your community.
Terra Nullius
Claire G. Coleman
In Australia, a young boy escapes from the settler-run school where he and other children are trained for a life of enslavement.
An urgent job to be done
On Memoir of a Race Traitor
Expendable
On Memoir of a Race Traitor
Memoir of a Race Traitor
Mab Segrest
“I have written this treatise on the souls of white folks with an urgency that it be exemplary, a template into which white readers can read themselves,” begins Mab Segrest, in this rare and fearless book.
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Decades after a pandemic has ravaged the planet, a roving group of actors and musicians called The Symphony return to a small town and find that things are not as they were before.
Fabricating social order
On The End of Policing
You can’t end inequality without ending policing
On The End of Policing
The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale
A clear and thorough indictment of every part of the institution that is policing—and an urgent call to end it.
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Set in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, The Shadow King centers Hirut, an orphan living as a servant in the home of Kidane, and his wife, Aster.
Tend and befriend
On A Paradise Built in Hell & Birth Strike
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit
Starting with the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, Solnit tours through one disaster after another, including the Halifax explosion, Mexico City’s earthquake, 9/11 in New York, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The hard way
Lessons on leading a remote team when the world’s on fire.
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
This latest tome from N. K. Jemisin tells the story of New York—specifically, of the six people who must become the city of New York in order to save themselves and their city from destruction.
Agency
William Gibson
In this sequel to The Peripheral, Gibson returns to a world with multiple futures, and a newly rewritten past.
How We Get Free
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Formed in 1974, the Combahee River Collective was a radical Black feminist organization.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
James Tiptree, Jr.
Under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr., Alice Sheldon wrote dozens of award-winning and influential stories, some of the best of which are included here.