Recs if you like The Ministry for the Future...
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!)
Barack Obama's favorite books
All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.
Profit > People
Fictional stories. Real consequences. Profit > People is dedicated to books with capitalist critique, focusing on the lives - and bodies - sacrificed at the altar of industry and interest. Always taking recommendations!
Positive post-capitalist books
Someone made a post about this and I thought it was a great list idea. I know I really need books that have more positivity and hope for the future, so hopefully this will help someone else too.
Let me know if I get anything wrong. Please comment recommendations!
Imagining utopia that isn't just secretly dystopia
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism"
But these books try anyway
Also see: Star Trek (TNG and DS9) but those aren't books
But WAIT. There’s hope. ✨FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
I’ll make another list for the nonfiction and for the anthologies. Feel free to suggest any recs!
Beyond Sustainable Cities
Inspired by Chelssicle’s list ‘The Cities We Deserve’. How might we build urban spaces that care for both people and the planet? Fic and nonfic.
Queer Ecology
Books to widen the possibilities of how we might save ourselves us from the worsening climate crisis by recognizing and learning from the queerness already represented in nature
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
It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Fiction)
Books that are set in worlds that are either in the midst of facing world ending catastrophes or shortly there after. This list focuses on books that show how humans evolve and survive given the new circumstances they're in.
As always, open to suggestions for additions to the list! 🙂
Climate Change Novels
quest busters pt. 5
Cli-fi/Eco-Fiction
Fiction that deals with climate change. Books may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.
Books that make everything feel not so bleak
Just a little hope for when it all feels too hard. Will add recs as they come - lemme know what needs to be added!
SciFri Book Club
The SciFri Book Club, created by the people who bring you the weekly public radio show Science Friday, is a program to bring people together around all things science reading—anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!
It’s the End of the World and I Know Why
Dystopian future fiction and nonfiction books exploring where we are heading and why.
This list might save you at the end…
sci-fi and science bookshelf of a naturalist queer
Books that made it from the bookstore to my home library! Many are queer, but not all
Sustainability Transformation
Books about new and ancient ideas to create sustainable change or something near to it...
SRC Book Club
All the books we are reading in the Stockholm Resilience Centre sci-fi book club!
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