A collection of both fictional futures and historical societies that show us another way to be. Utopian, Solarpunk, Anarchist, etc.
We Don't Have To Live Like This Public
Created and curated by Remy Rose
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The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
5 stars
In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than …
Remy Rose says: This book might across as too gritty, realistic and fatalist to be on this list. However, I think it has all the necessary seeds that lead to where we want to be.
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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
4 stars
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver …
Remy Rose says: Shows all the historical precedent for how societies have organized themselves differently throughout history, and that calling our current formation "progress" isn't necessarily correct.
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Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures (Bikes in Space) by Elly Blue
In a world with an uncertain future, do you imagine for the best or for the worst case scenario? Twelve …
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Rebuilding Tomorrow: Anthology of Life After the Apocalypse by Tsana Dolichva
4 stars
What if the apocalypse isn’t the end of the world? An anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill …
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Metamorphosis by Grist, Sheree Renée Thomas
A visionary anthology of climate fiction from Grist.
For many of us, the thought of our planet centuries in …
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Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn (Halfway to Better)
5 stars
Halfway to Better is a collection of six short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future world where we’re struggling to …
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Someone Like You by Paweł Ngei, Ana Sun
A short story from the Glider Ink project - a planned series of solarpunk short stories centered around a hackerspace, …
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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Danielle Cain, #1)
4 stars
Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa, and …
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We Won't Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy
5 stars
Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have …
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A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (Black Dawn, #2)
5 stars
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
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5 stars
On a mysterious green planet regenerated by fire, vibrant communities live in harmony with both its strange ecosystem and each …
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Practicing New Worlds by adrienne maree brown, Andrea Ritchie, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Practicing New Worlds explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward …
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Ancestors by adrienne maree brown (Grievers, #3)
Community ideals and magic clash in this follow-up to Grievers and Maroons by adrienne maree brown.
Ancestors is the …
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Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, …
