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.
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There are 23 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138935419 | ISBN 10: 1138935417
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?
The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly q ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033780 | ISBN 10: 1785033786
Hailed as a classic of speculative science fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time will speak to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780349004075 | ISBN 10: 0349004072
Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees and organic crops on flat rooftops - has long predi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099539032 | ISBN 10: 0099539039
In this urgent yet optimistic new work, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai provides a unique perspective on the fate of Africa.
Informed by her three decades as an environmental activist and campaigner for democracy, The Challenge for ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408801109 | ISBN 10: 1408801108
An environmental disaster movie of a thriller, from the celebrated author of The Ninth Life of Louis Drax.
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099539094 | ISBN 10: 0099539098
"As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.
The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned whic ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844673704 | ISBN 10: 1844673707
One of the leading social and political thinkers in the world today asks the question: What should the Left propose today? A manifesto that engages a vital question of our time: where should the Left go from here? Confronting the major debates in the ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199539192 | ISBN 10: 0199539197
'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
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571236602 | ISBN 10: 057123660x
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
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£17.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781604860030 | ISBN 10: 1604860030
In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780956018106 | ISBN 10: 0956018106
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
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571223817 | ISBN 10: 0571223818
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
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£14.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780907123507 | ISBN 10: 0907123503
All over Britain and Ireland there are planned villages: for aesthetic, philanthropic or political reasons, for convenience and for ideals – the best known being Portmeirion, Port Sunlight, New Lanark and Bournville. Gillian Darley covers many hundre ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571228522 | ISBN 10: 0571228526
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a so ... more
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£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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£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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£16.50 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780951494585 | ISBN 10: 0951494589
This book provides a wealth of information about communities, communes & co-operatives, of all types and scales, that existed in the UK from the 14th century until World War II. It brings the various characters to life, assisted by plenty of photogra ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780704347007 | ISBN 10: 0704347008
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
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£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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£8.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781857988826 | ISBN 10: 1857988825
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
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£8.99 paperback (1994) - ISBN 13: 9780099518471 | ISBN 10: 0099518473
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined lo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1993) - ISBN 13: 9780099225614 | ISBN 10: 0099225611
First published in 1973, this study looks at the economic structure of the western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organizations and increased specialization, ... more
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