"For me, speculative fiction possesses a delicious and breathtaking capacity for making political theory come to life. When I started my undergraduate degree as a political science major, I'd been an avoid science fiction and fantasy reader for years. The intellectual challenges these genres thrust me into made political theory electrifying and liberatory. I never had to struggle to imagine the new worlds that theorists like Karl Marx, Edward Said, and Franz Fanon implored readers to envision; I'd already been doing that."

— Mimi Mondal, Bama, Kumar, Sumit (Artist), Gogu Shyamala, Gautamiputra Kamble, P. A. Uthaman, Neerav Patel, Tamilmagan, Archita Mittra, Goutam Mandal, V. Chandrashekar Rao, Sahej Rahal, Rahee Punyashloka, Kunal Lokhande, Subash Thebe Limbu, Nabi Haider Ali, Esther Larisa David, Snehashish Das, Hameedha Khan, Aswathy K. Raj, Gouri, Gitanjali Joshua, Prachi Singh, Shivani Kshirsagar, Yukti Narang, Sudarshan Devadoss, M.K. Abhilash, Yeswanth Mocharla: The Blalf Book of Anti-Caste SF, p. xv