If you were drawn to the anthology’s visionary-fiction approach—stories that treat organizing, abolition, and mutual aid as engines for worldbuilding—this postcolonial collection will feel like a natural next step. Like the pieces in Octavia’s Brood that imagine prison abolition and climate justice as lived futures rather than slogans, these stories rework empire, migration, and resistance into speculative frameworks that prioritize people and community over tech. You’ll get the same heady mix of activist imagination and humane, character-first SF that made the Imarisha/brown anthology so electric.

If what grabbed you in Octavia’s Brood was its breadth of perspectives—organizers, culture workers, and storytellers mapping many roads to liberation—New Suns offers that same polyphony. You’ll find sharp, idea-rich tales that echo the anthology’s commitment to representation and community care, from Tobias Buckell’s satirical “Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” to Chinelo Onwualu’s contract-bound fable “The Fine Print.” The collection, like your favorite pieces about mutual aid and transformative justice in Octavia’s Brood, makes the future bigger by widening who gets to imagine it.

If the moral clarity of Octavia’s Brood—its insistence that futures are built through solidarity—stuck with you, Butler’s classic channels that energy into a single, unforgettable narrative. Lauren Olamina’s creation of Earthseed, her hyperempathy, and the road north where she gathers a community at Acorn mirror the anthology’s recurring commitments to mutual aid and abolitionist thinking. Like the stories that reframed justice in Octavia’s Brood, Parable of the Sower challenges you to live your politics through action, creed, and care.

If you loved how Octavia’s Brood allowed room for optimism—visions where communities heal and remake the world—The Seep offers a tender, utopian lens that still takes grief and injustice seriously. Trina FastHorse Goldberg-Oneka navigates a world remade by an alien presence that dissolves scarcity and hierarchy, echoing the anthology’s pieces where care work and collective imagination lead social change. It’s the same hopeful current you felt in those stories that chose transformation over despair.

If the multiplicity of viewpoints in Octavia’s Brood—each story a new voice testing a new future—was your favorite part, Jemisin’s collection delivers that same kaleidoscope. From the living-city resistance of “The City Born Great” to the community-grounded counter-myopia of “The Ones Who Stay and Fight” and the folkloric justice of “Red Dirt Witch,” the pieces echo the anthology’s activist pulse and speculative range. You’ll get the same feeling of stepping into a new movement with every story.