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Alternative Futures - A Booklist of Fiction and Non-fiction: utopias, dystopias, apocalyptic, visionary and practical, to Celebrate our 36th Birthday(!) on Mayday 2010, and help us envision the world(s) we want.

Related category: Changing the World

Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 4 books in this booklist

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  Fire on the Mountain - by Terry Bisson

  £14.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781604860870 | ISBN 10: 1604860871

  It's 1959 in Socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet and a pregant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great grandfath ... more

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  Island - by Aldous Huxley

  £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099477778 | ISBN 10: 0099477777

  For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with eastern philosophy and humanism to create a paradise ... more

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  The Porto Alegre Alternative; Direct Democracy in Action. - by Iain Bruce (Ed/Trans)

  £19.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780745320960 | ISBN 10: 0745320961

  Porto Alegre in Brazil is famous as the city that pioneered a revolutionary kind of local democracy. Started over a decade ago by the municipal administration of the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT), this process - called the 'participatory budget' - ha ... more

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  The Faber Book of Utopias - by John Carey

  £20.00   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780571203178 | ISBN 10: 0571203175

  Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic ... more

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