Ken MacLeod: Red Futures in the Gutter

From The Dark Forest

This is MacLeod’s great refusal: no radiant tomorrows, no shining cities in orbit, no anarchist communes beyond corruption. Every faction is cracked. Every ideology is compromised. Every rebellion curdles into dogma, every revolution ossifies into bureaucracy, every insurgency becomes indistinguishable from the power it once opposed. And yet it never stops. People still fight, because they cannot not fight. Ideas still mutate, because they cannot die. The wheel of ideology keeps turning, grinding flesh beneath it, even when all that’s left is rubble.

Interview: Radon and the new wave of anarchist sci-fi

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.

Radon Journal Issue #4 available now

Radon Journal Issue 4 (May 2023) is out! Read 10 spectacular short stories and 10 powerful poems all with unique, endless depth that comes only from a Radon story.

Free pdf available here: https://www.radonjournal.com/

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