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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.

Related category: Changing the World

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai
    The Challenge for Africa - by Wangari Maathai

    £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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  • Cover image of book Letters to My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future by Tony Benn
    Letters to My Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future - by Tony Benn

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Left Alternative by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
    The Left Alternative - by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

    £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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  • Cover image of book Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
    Fire on the Mountain - by Terry Bisson

    £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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  • Cover image of book News from Nowhere by William Morris
    News from Nowhere - by William Morris

    £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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  • Cover image of book Psyclone by Shyam Mael
    Psyclone - by Shyam Mael

    £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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  • Cover image of book Island by Aldous Huxley
    Island - by Aldous Huxley

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Porto Alegre Alternative; Direct Democracy in Action. by Iain Bruce (Ed/Trans)
    The Porto Alegre Alternative; Direct Democracy in Action. - by Iain Bruce (Ed/Trans)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Faber Book of Utopias by John Carey
    The Faber Book of Utopias - by John Carey

    £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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