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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. (browse related categories Politics & Philosophy Changing the World )
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Lionboy - by Zizou Corder - £7.99
Charlie Ashanti can speak Cat. He takes it for granted - but when his Mum and Dad go missing, the cats are the only friends he can turn to. Setting out to find his parents, Charlie stows away on an incredible circus ship bound for Paris. O ... more
Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury - £8.99
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. ... more
Little Brother - by Cory Doctorow - £9.99
The ultimate tale of teen rebellion...
Marcus is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works - and how to work the system. Smart, fast and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitti ... more
Island - by Aldous Huxley - £9.99
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
News from Nowhere - by William Morris - £7.99
'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.' News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Gu ... more
The Road - by Cormac McCarthy - £8.99
The searing, post-apocalyptic novel that has instantly established itself as a modern masterpiece. 2007 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to th ... more
Utopian Dreams: In Search of a Good Life - by Tobias Jones - £8.99
From the author of the bestselling The Dark Heart of Italy comes a different kind of travel book, a diary of one year spent living in communes and amongst unusual dreamers.
Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real wo ... more
The Carhullan Army - by Sarah Hall - £8.99
Set in the part of England once known as The Lake District, "The Carhullan Army" is narrated by a young woman who has adopted the name Sister. Britain after its union with the United States and numerous unsuccessful foreign wars, has found itself in ... more
Herland - by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - £6.99
Written in 1915, this text is about three male explorers and the utopian female society they stumble upon. This is a community where war, famine and other "man-made" disasters do not exist. An early feminist classic. ... more
Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power & Politics in 20th Century Urbanism - by D A Pinder - £32.00
Visions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. Such ... more
The Passion of New Eve - by Angela Carter - £8.99
'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Moth ... more
Psyclone - by Shyam Mael - £9.99
Captured and tortured by the anti-terrorist squad, Jared's life will never be the same. Rescued by a shadowy group of revolutionary freedom fighters he begins a journey that uncovers the hidden workings of a disturbingly familiar dystopia, and reveal ... more
Fire on the Mountain - by Terry Bisson - £14.99
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
The Dispossessed - by Ursula Le Guin - £8.99
Shevek is a brilliant physicist from the austerely isolationist and anarchic planet Anarres working on the Principle of Simultaneity which could revolutionize interstellar civilization by making instantaneous communication possible. But Shevek' ... more
Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century - by Chris Spannos (ed) - £14.00
What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions - those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, culture, community, and ecology - were based not on competition, individual ownership, and coercion, but on ... more
Shades of Grey - by Jasper Fforde - £8.99
Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour.
Eddie Russett is an abov ... more
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