From Gary McGath
Leslie Fish, one of the best-known members of the filk music community, has died. She was talented, opinionated, outgoing, and just weird (in the best sense of the word). I didn’t know her well, but I’d seen, heard, and talked with her on many occasions. Other people who knew her better will write about her, but I should give my perspective here.
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.
From Freedom News by Yavor Tarinski.
A political activist and award-winning science fiction author, he was also a visionary of alternatives to capitalism
Valentin Todorov, who passed away in Sofia on 22 September, leaves an immense legacy for the social and cultural movements in Bulgaria.
From Literary Hub by Ed Simon
Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione
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 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 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.
From The Transmetropolitan Review
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
-Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
Introduction
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.
From Radon Journal - Anarchist, Dystopian, Transhuman, Science Fiction, Prose & Poetry Journal
Radon is a triannual online journal publishing prose and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia. We are a paying market.