Book Review: Every Day Is A Good Day, by Robert Shea

From Overweening Generalist

Blessed are the fanatical devotees of minor writers (hey, I’ve been here), for they ensure the unduly neglected don’t fall through the cracks and down the memory holes. Let us sing the praises of the intellectual free thinkers, the anonymous erudites, those toiling researchers who in their spare time seek out obscure periodicals, ephemera and texts, use archives, and remind the reading public: here was someone we ought not forget. Let us at least keep considering their work for now.

Radon Journal Issue 8 is now live!

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.

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.

The Dispossessed at 50

From The Conversation by Alexander Howard

Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘anarchist utopia’ 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.

Earthseed for Anarchists

From C4SS by Locusts and Wild Honey

Science fiction has always been an important playground of radical politics for anarchists, libertarians, and socialists alike. My personal favorite is Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents (the two completed novels of her Earthseed series), which tell the story of a United States of the 2030s in the midst of economic collapse, and fascistic rule,  corporate dominance as well as the struggle to build new communities amid this chaos—not to revive the dying empire but to build something new and better from its ashes.

Margaret Killjoy

From Full Stop by Shane Burley

Speculative Fiction can be a place where we dream about what is possible, or even what we think is not. Because it is about future worlds or alternative trajectories, it opens up our imagination to a fundamental change in our society. For better or for worse, it is a temporal projection where we can take seriously (or precisely un-seriously) what giant social shifts can result in. This may be part of why we are living through a massive surge of radical Speculative/Science Fiction, which adds a revolutionary dimension to this world building. It alternates between two perspectives, the dystopian, where we see through the conclusions of the human self-destruction we are witnessing, or its alternative, the utopian. The utopian Speculative Fiction is the much harder of the two, willing to take risks by imagining something provocatively different, better, than what we have now.

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