Inspired by Octavia Butlers explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. the world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us. badrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavias Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.