We Will Rise Again, Malka Older
We Will Rise Again, Malka Older
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We Will Rise Again
Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope

Author: Malka Older, Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord

Narrator: Ali Andre Ali, Janina Edwards, Je Nie Fleming, Jackie Meloche, André Santana

Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/02/2025

Synopsis

From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transformative visions of the future, fantastical alternate worlds, and inspiration for the social justice movements of tomorrow.

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025
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In this collection, editors Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older champion realistic, progressive social change using the speculative stories of writers across the world. Exploring topics ranging from disability justice and environmental activism to community care and collective worldbuilding, these imaginative pieces from writers such as NK Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Alejandro Heredia, Sam J. Miller, Nisi Shawl, and Sabrina Vourvoulias center solidarity, empathy, hope, joy, and creativity.

Each story is grounded within a broader sociopolitical framework using essays and interviews from movement leaders, including adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, charting the future history of protest, revolutions, and resistance with the same zeal for accuracy that speculative writers normally bring to science and technology. Using the vehicle of ambitious storytelling, We Will Rise Again offers effective tools for organizing, an unflinching interrogation of the status quo, and a blueprint for prefiguring a different world.

About Malka Older

Malka Older is a writer, sociologist, and aid worker. A faculty associate at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, she teaches on the humanitarian-development spectrum and on predictive fictions, and is an associate researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations. She’s spoken at venues including SXSW, the Personal Democracy Forum, the FWD50 conference, and the Hamburg International Summer Festival on topics such as democracy, data, narrative disorder, and speculative resistance. Older’s The Mimicking of Known Successes was named a best book by Library Journal; its sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, was just published. Older’s sci-fi political thriller Infomocracy was named a book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, and The Washington Post. She is also author of Null States and State Tectonics, the creator of Ninth Step Station, and lead writer for the licensed sequel to Orphan Black. She’s written opinion pieces for The New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy.

About Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and science fiction writer who has published Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, a national bestseller; Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction; and Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. In turn, Newitz is the author of three sci-fi novels from Tor: The Terraformers, a national bestseller cited as a “best book of the year” by The London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Library Journal; The Future of Another Timeline; and Autonomous which won the Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Nebula and Locus awards. With Charlie Jane Anders, Newitz cohosts the Hugo Award–winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz founded io9, was editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, and currently teaches media studies at University of San Francisco.

About Karen Lord

Karen Lord is a Barbadian author and editor who has worked as a physics teacher, diplomat, part-time soldier, and academic. Her novel Redemption in Indigo won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the William L. Crawford Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle, and was longlisted for the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She is also the author of Unraveling, The Best of All Possible Worlds, a finalist for the 2014 Locus Awards; The Galaxy Game; The Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction; and is editor of the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chantaal on December 04, 2025

We Will Rise Again is such a fantastic, ambitious, hopeful, thoughtful project, and the care with which the editors have taken to really lay out their thesis is evident. Part of me is a bit biased in that I think Malka Older (co-editor) is rad as hell, but this is also genuinely GOOD. The decision t......more

Goodreads review by Venneh on September 02, 2025

I do like an anthology that pairs authors with actual activists in the community to talk about how to buckle down for the long term in a deeply hostile state. These authors all would've hit hard on their own, but the additional knowledge added by the activists, and the interviews throughout with com......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on December 03, 2025

Filled with stories of hope, resilience and empathy, this book is the perfect for those that strive for and believe in social justice and building a better future! Especially at a time that feels so heavy and hopeless. I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review......more

Goodreads review by Meghna on December 06, 2025

We Will Rise Again is one of those rare anthologies that understands exactly what speculative fiction is for. Not escapism, not distraction, but a deliberate excavation of our collective future. This collection gathers some of the sharpest minds in contemporary SFF and pairs them with movement organ......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on December 05, 2025

4.5 stars I think this is a desperately needed anthology full of stories and interviews that are wildly different but also have a common thread of tenacity among them. Speculative fiction is a genre that I need to read more of, because I felt a little bit like I wasn't smart enough for some of these......more

Quotes

"The diverse narrations that make up this anthology are consistently captivating. This audiobook started as a social justice project, with authors invited to envision possible futures. The result is a fascinating collection of speculative pieces, each delivered with powerful performances. Some highlights: Je Nie Fleming captures the vulnerability of an athlete whose genetic "originality" places him at odds with political forces. Jackie Meloche effectively delivers the story of a trans woman who inherits a windfall and invests in rebuilding a small Kansas town. Janina Edwards provides a compelling performance about a tech app company attempting to connect people in a future where joy is often out of reach. The combination of voices provides creative visions in this fractured, troubling time."

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