20 years from now, Los Angeles struggles in ‘It’s Not the End of the World’

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 we’re living in anxious times, and that the future looks less than rosy. That’s apparent in the latest novel from the author, “It’s Not the End of the World,” out now from Bloomsbury. The book is set in a Los Angeles 20 years in the future — and things aren’t going well.

A Russian village where the Revolution went to die

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, “Anarchists and Communists,” journalist, engineer and author Andrei Platonov wrote “True Anarchy is the understanding that all power and authority on Earth is unnecessary and harmful, that people do not need to be led.”

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.

Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods

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 “an own-voices story of trans witchcraft,” her home met my expectations and then some.

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.

The Anarchists of Dune

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 what’s at stake.

Protest Nostalgia

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.

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.

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