Recs if you like The Machine Stops...
1h reads for your lunch break
on average people read 40-60 pages an hour, so this is a continuously updated collection of books with 60 pages or less & a couple short story collections
pre-2000s queer sci-fi
older science fiction with lgbtq+ characters and/or authors and books that question gender and sexuality
The Big Bad Luddite Novel*
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.
bite-sized dystopia
dystopian novels under 200 pages, including short stories
Cyberscape Tales
A list of books set online or dealing heavily with the cyberscape. Suggestions welcome!
Short fiction: 80 pages or less
OGs Utopia and Dystopia that made the genre
Books that marqued the genre
Books for Real Freaks
Some of the texts I've read with themes of repressed sexuality, religion, psychosexual dynamics between characters, and straight up freaky things. These are all complex works of fiction or non fiction with erotic overtones. This does not mean characters will have sex! It just means things get weird!
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