Hey! Who put their leftist politics in my fiction?
Need a gift for your extremist family member, but they already have a red baseball cap AND a Don't Tread on Me shirt? Were you told "Don't bring up politics at family dinner" and need some safe books to discuss instead? Well we have a full menu for you to choose from! Each just for fun book comes with our guarantee: No real world political messages under the 100% fictional plot! 😉 (Taking Recommendations!)






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.






Solarpunk reads
A lil collection of books that envisions collective futures that are vibrant with life, as well as the actions, policies, and technologies that make them real. A good mixture of fiction and non-fiction!
All solarpunk should be anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist.






Solarpunk






Books to keep the little flame alive 🔥
Fiction with revolutionary themes or spirit because prefiguration (imagining possible futures, designing alternatives) is crucial. Also contains works engaging with revolutions and the lives enmeshed within them. We must protect the little flame. And books are the best.






Take Me Back to the Wasteland
Books with similar themes to the Fallout series: critiquing rampant American consumerism and greed; deconstructing 1950s-era conservatism; post-apocalyptic road trip; man vs. God; long-term effects of authoritarianism; morally gray choices or “morally gray” choices; being locked inside underground (or in space) indefinitely; retro-futuristic technology; nuclear weapons and fallout; cosmic horror; or, ultimately, being the baddest motherfucker with a baseball bat.





