Anarchist Fictions #2
đWhat are you and your pals reading? đ
đ„Anarchist Fiction #2 (theme: FUCK WORK) will run a new feature in which we print the reading lists of anarchist book clubs who care to share.
đWhat are you and your pals reading? đ
đ„Anarchist Fiction #2 (theme: FUCK WORK) will run a new feature in which we print the reading lists of anarchist book clubs who care to share.
From The Orange County Register by Michael Schaub
LA-based writer Jonathan Parks-Ramage says a sense of dread led him to write his bleakly comic novel.
Jonathan Parks-Ramage knows well that weâre living in anxious times, and that the future looks less than rosy. Thatâs apparent in the latest novel from the author, âItâs Not the End of the World,â out now from Bloomsbury. The book is set in a Los Angeles 20 years in the future â and things arenât going well.
From Notes Towards an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness
Revisiting Tolkienâs Anarcho-Catholicism - Part I & II
From Fifth Estate, #415, Summer 2024, by Lawton Browning.
a review of Chevengur by Andrei Platonov. NYRB 2023 (Originally published 1929)
In his 1920 essay, âAnarchists and Communists,â journalist, engineer and author Andrei Platonov wrote âTrue Anarchy is the understanding that all power and authority on Earth is unnecessary and harmful, that people do not need to be led.â
From Radon Journal | Anarchist Sci-Fi
Read the latest emerging talent in anarchist science fiction.
In print for the first time!
These 20 stories will enthrall you and bring up a black mirror to modern capitalist society. We're be bringing you 10 short stories and 10 poems that each captivate, challenge, and course through your mind at night, long after you're done reading. The perfect mix of subversive and emotional.
From Autostraddle by Nico Hall
Dressed in all black down to her ankles, dark hair in two braids, Margaret Killjoy let me into her house in the forested mountains, where she lives a hermit-like life with her companion, her dog Rintrah. A transfeminine musician, podcaster, and author of multiple fantasy books, Killjoy lives in the mountains of Appalachia in a home filled with instruments, books, art, and medieval weaponry. For an author who wrote an upcoming novel described as âan own-voices story of trans witchcraft,â her home met my expectations and then some.
From Freedom News UK
Anarchist transhuman sci-fi collective Radon have published multiple digital journals over the last few years exploring themes including dystopia, rebellion and social conflict. Rob Ray interviews the editors.
From The Conversation by Alexander Howard
Ursula K. Le Guinâs âanarchist utopiaâ was an anguished response to war. Its political power endures
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most revered science fiction writers of all time. Her groundbreaking science-fiction novel The Dispossessed, written against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, speaks to historically specific forms of geopolitical violence and societal malaise. However, it continues to resonate today.
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Across the world, the movie-watching public will soon behold the Fremen of Dune sack and destroy the Empire, starting on their homeworld of Arrakis. This irresistible moment, where the rebels actually win, is sure to sink into the mass-public consciousness, but despite all the Arabic names and parallels between spice and petroleum, the true story of the Fremen deserves to be told, especially now, given whatâs at stake.
A review of 'Red Squared Montreal' by Norman Nawrocki
The 2012 student strike deserves its own literature, and Red Squared Montreal succeeds at least in capturing the dizzy heights of the protests. As both anarchist and poet, Nawrocki often knows just the right words to capture the elation, camaraderie, and terror of marching in the street and facing off against contemptuous police. However, the lack of curiosity about the people behind the conflict means the novel ultimately fails to communicate the stakes and experiences of the 2012 strike in human terms.