Description: ""There's no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." Legendary science fiction writer and Afrofuturist pioneer Octavia Butler wrote the essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" in the year 2000 for publication in Essence magazine. More than two decades later, her honest and wise advice is just as timely and prescient, offering guideposts for anyone who wants to shape our future into something good"--
Review Quotes: "Let's keep these rules close at hand, reminders of how to look ahead with hope, as Octavia did, and do it with as much determination as she had. And let's also use this book to remind ourselves that rules like these aren't cages. They're armatures on which we can build the future in which we want to live." --Nisi Shawl, The Seattle Times