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.
Practicing the future
On Emergent Strategy
Change is constant
On Emergent Strategy
Emergent Strategy
adrienne maree brown
“I read sci-fi and visionary fiction as political, sacred, and philosophical text, and I engage with others who read it that way,” writes adrienne maree brown, in this astonishing, radical, and humane book.
All prose is fiction
On Words Are My Matter & The Dispossessed
Words Are My Matter
Ursula K. Le Guin
In this late volume, Le Guin reflects on many of the things that animated her thinking throughout her life.
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
This is a story of the underground railroad, of memory, and of magic—all told with Coates’s exquisite prose.
Errantry
Elizabeth Hand
This collection of shorts includes ghosts, flying machines, witches, ancient trees, and more than one impossible transformation.
And Go Like This
John Crowley
This collection ranges across a wide territory in both place and time, but there are recurring themes: aging, mortality, endings and beginnings—extraordinary reflections on ordinary lives.