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Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers. Dune must navigate poverty and the loss of her mother as Detroit’s hospitals, morgues, and graveyards begin to overflow. As the quarantined city slowly empties of life, she investigates what caused the plague, and what might end it. In anguish, she follows in the footsteps of her late researcher father, who has a physical model of Detroit’s history and losses set up in their basement. She dusts the model off and begins tracking the sick and dying, discovering patterns, finding comrades in curiosity, conspiracies for the fertile ground of the city, and the unexpected magic that emerges when the debt of grief is cleared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first volume of brown’s \u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e tales also launches AK Press’s new speculative fiction series Black Dawn, in which authors create alternate realities through visionary works that imagine different ways of seeing, being in, and remaking the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Bestseller Brown (\u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e) makes her fiction debut with the powerful, emotional story of Dune, a young woman living in Detroit, Mich., in the midst of a bizarre epidemic ... 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It’s a strong precedent that will leave readers eager for more.\" \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful debut novella by \u003ca title=\"adrienne maree brown\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e, who is already one of our most important voices in Afrofuturism and true-life worldbuilding. \u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e could not be more timely, tackling loss, plague, gentrification, memory and grief with a path toward hope in a future Detroit. Each paragraph is lovingly crafted, a story unto itself, blending into a tapestry no reader will soon forget.” Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Summer: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dune finds her way into our inner spaces as we read \u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e by adrienne maree brown. We are compelled to witness this precise yet unwieldy unfolding spiral of memory and resistance via survival. \u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e is the right book for right now. adrienne inspires us to be present as we try and put ourselves back together no matter how broken this world seems. There has never been a love letter to Detroit and social justice lineages like this one.” Ayana A. H. Jamieson, PhD founder of Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This Detroit thriller\/mystery written by adrienne maree brown is a story full of suspense, grief and an overwhelming sense of community that is determined to survive a city wide mysterious pandemic. Each character will remind you of a Detroit Ancestor or loving comrade in the struggle and has you question what life will be like after hell.” Siwatu-Salama Ra, Community daughter, Mother, Detroit community organizer, prison abolitionist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting melody. Highly imaginative but with a gruesome practicality,\u003cem\u003e Grievers\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the lengths one person will go to in order to have some self-determination in the midst of being desperately alone. I was filled with the deep, aching love that was woven throughout this story. When all that you know and love is gone, gone up in flames, gone mute or just gone ‘away’… you are forced to discover and draw upon all of the resources that are tucked into your family, your history, your city for resilience, self-sufficiency and the ability to truly make a way out of no way. Gritty and tender, it dug under my skin and settled into my Detroit soul.” Lottie Spady, Detroit activist and healer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eadrienne maree brown is a writer living in Detroit. She is a student of the works of Octavia E. Butler and Ursula K. Le Guin. \u003cem\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e is her first novel. Her previous books include \u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood, Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us\u003c\/em\u003e. Her visionary fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Funambulist, Harvard Design Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDark Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175385608285,"sku":"9781849354523","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/grievers_72_0.jpg?v=1654989036"},{"product_id":"in-the-land-of-the-two-legged-women-a-novel","title":"In the Land of the Two-Legged Women: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2017 International Book Awards, Women’s Issues \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the onset of puberty girls’ right legs are sawed off in Ramprend’s Beautification Ritual. In this dystopian novel, female stumps are desirable to men. Solanj’l — ’l denoting one-leg — hates her inability to move freely and makes a wooden leg to enable her to walk, or step-drag, rather than be rolled in a chair or swing along on props. It’s an extraordinary thing to do because no artificial limbs exist in Ramprend. Her husband sees commercial possibilities in his wife’s invention and begins producing Glom’s Glamor Legs. The ability to move more or less on two legs, no matter how uncomfortably, opens new ways of thinking for the women. Solanj’l and Deba’l, wife of Hunak, Minister Second Only to the First, therefore start gatherings of women, ostensibly to discuss Pleasure Ways with the wooden legs for the purpose of increasing husband happiness. Nevertheless, husbands are not always paramount in their thoughts. When items start disappearing in Ramprend and it is learned that women who live in the mountains outside the city have two legs and operate independently, Solanj’l and some of her friends are determined to put an end to the “Beautification,” no matter the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Energetic prose, vivid description, a page-turner plot, this debut novel grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go until the heart-thumping climax. \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Two-Legged Women\u003c\/em\u003e brings a fully realized dystopian society to life through the considerable imaginative forces of author Huey Helene Alcaro. In Ramprend, at the onset of puberty, girls must submit to the horribly disfiguring Beautification Ritual to satisfy the pleasure of their future husbands. Led by the fiery and beautiful Solanj’l, the women of Ramprend revolt to reclaim their bodies and their lives. From the first Gatherings of the women, ostensibly to discuss ways they can further pleasure their husbands, to the final faceoff in which the men threaten to storm the Great Hall in which the women have barricaded themselves, this battle of social change bellows a triumph of the human spirit. Both in love and war the stakes are high and not everyone can win. Creating a new society means accepting what must be relinquished as well as what is gained.” Cecelia Frey, author of \u003cem\u003eMoments of Joy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Long White Sickness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Huey Helene Alcaro’s novel, \u003cem\u003eIn the Land of Two-Legged Women\u003c\/em\u003e, is tough, shocking and necessary, an allegory reminiscent of fellow SFnal feminists Joanna Russ, Monique Wittig, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Alcaro keeps us turning pages, AND thinking!” Ursula Pflug, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Alphabet Stones\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMotion Sickness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I cannot imagine a Women’s Studies classroom without this dystopian novel. Like Margaret Atwood and Charlotte Perkins GIlman, Alcaro exposes the misogyny and concomitant rage beneath the veneer of tradition. This slim allegory dares us to look away from the full-frontal horror of what history has wrought for women. I could not stop reading, cannot stop thinking about the gauntlet this bold gem of a text has thrown down. Brave, compelling, and long overdue. “ Donna Decker, author of \u003cem\u003eDancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHuey Helene Alcaro has worked on a farm, taught adults in inner city Newark, New Jersey, and taught and directed the Women’s Center at Montclair State University, NJ. Her fiction has appeared in several North American journals and was a finalist for the 2011 Glass Woman Prize. She lives in Roseland, NJ, and blogs at hueyhelenealcaro.com.\u003cem\u003e In the Land of Two-Legged Women\u003c\/em\u003e is her debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Huey Helene Alcaro\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-77133-241-5\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 280 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Inanna\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Inanna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175386591325,"sku":"9781771332415","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/land_of_two-legged_women_9781771332415-1.jpg?v=1654989041"},{"product_id":"what-happened-to-tom-a-novella","title":"What Happened to Tom: A Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by Judith Jarvis Thomson’s philosophical thought experiment “The Violinist,” \u003cem\u003eWhat Happened to Tom \u003c\/em\u003eis a psychological and philosophical thriller, a horror story that any one of millions of people could, at any moment, experience. Tom, like many men, assumes that since pregnancy is a natural part of being a woman, it’s no big deal: a woman finds herself pregnant, she does or does not go through with it, end of story. But then Tom wakes up to find his body’s been hijacked and turned into a human kidney dialysis machine. For nine months he has to stay connected to Simon, a famous violinist, or Simon will die. Tom finds he is powerless to take legal or medical action to deal with the situation. He loses his girlfriend, his car, his apartment, and eventually his job as an architect. At the end of the novel, he has lost almost everything he holds dear and his life is completely, and irrevocably, derailed, and entwined with that of a violinist who no longer wants to work. 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Yet more important still is that this is an exciting and mysterious novel, a story of war and love in some fictional mountainous country with echoes of nineteenth century Latin America, eastern Europe, central Asia; by the time you’re done you feel you’ve gotten a glimpse into a forgotten part of our history that is nevertheless very real.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kim-stanley-robinson\" title=\"Kim Stanley Robinson\"\u003eKim Stanley Robinson\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijk1NzEifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mars-trilogy\" title=\"the Mars trilogy\"\u003ethe Mars trilogy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A Country of Ghosts is entertaining, its politics intriguing, and the setting is a place I found myself missing after I turned the last page.” Nick Mamatas, author of I am Providence and Bullettime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Margaret Killjoy’s A Country Of Ghosts is a remarkable book, one that demonstrates the power of speculative fiction and Fantasy as a tool to imagine new ways of living outside of repressive regimes.\" Jonathan Thornton, The Fantasy Hive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Killjoy has created a big world with big problems and squeezed it into a brief novel. 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Nanites babble to babies in Cree, virtual reality teaches transformation, foxes take human form and wreak havoc on hearts, buffalo roam free, and beings grapple with the thorny problem of healing from colonialism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndigenous futurisms seek to discover the impact of colonization, remove its psychological baggage, and recover ancestral traditions. These eight short stories of \"Metis futurism\" explore Indigenous existence and resistance through the specific lens of being Metis. 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Meticoulously researched, the stories present an alternate reality for Metis people while maintaining and strengthening what we would consider to be the important parts of ourselves, such as our Metis nehiyawak beliefs and knowledge of the world and our place in it. It's a deeply felt work of love for our people and for the babies to come, one that helped me to see things in a new light and shifted my thinking, as only a great work of art can do.\" Christi Belcourt (manitow-sakahikan apihtawikosisan \/ Lac Ste. Anne Metis), visual artist\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Meticulously researched and thoughtfully created, these stories inform as well as entertain, engage as well as challenge. Rich in place, culture, history, and language, Vowel has offered a series of mamahtawacimowina, miraculous stories, that will undoubtedly endure as we head into the future, just like the powerful characters that live within these pages.\" -David A. 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She extends the future of Metis people, considering what it might be like while taking readers on fantastical journeys.\" -Edmonton Journal\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Indigenous visionaries imagining Indigenous futures: this deeply held and age-old principle is powerfully realized in this extraordinary new collection that speaks to our time, as well as others. In Buffalo Is the New Buffalo, Chelsea Vowel takes land, kinship, and community seriously - not simply as metaphors or motifs, but as profound and motivating values for imagining restorative Metis futures beyond the limitations of the settler colonial imaginary. These remarkable stories of constellated Metis kinship across space and time are haunting, hilarious, harrowing, and healing in equal measure; the characters are alive, complicated, and compelling, and Vowel's work insists on the vibrant now, then, and tomorrow of Indigenous possibility. The stories will linger with you long after you finish the book, in all the very best ways. I can't recommend this book highly enough.\" -Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), author of \u003cem\u003eWhy Indigenous Literatures Matter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"These eight Metis Futurism short stories defy genre by blending the past, present, and future to create liberating possibilities for Metis and Indigenous futures where Indigenous peoples are very much present.\" -Buzzfeed News\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Doing speculative and science fiction through a Metis framework, Chelsea Vowel challenges, entertains and becomes the voice of Indigenous futurism.\" -Ms. Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40283444150365,"sku":"9781551528793","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/buffaloisthenewbuffalo.jpg?v=1657480485"},{"product_id":"marx-in-paris-1871-jennys-blue-notebook","title":"Marx in Paris, 1871: Jenny's ”Blue Notebook”","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of April 1871. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and Jenny encounter and debate many important figures of the movement, including Leó Frankel, Eugène Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with a profoundly changed sense of political possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Far more than most dare admit, history and historians mix fact and fiction. The two were and are always inseparably intertwined. The 1871 Paris Commune – when a proletariat took political power from a bourgeoisie – transformed the social movement to do better than capitalism. Marx assessed the strengths and weaknesses of that transformative moment to advance that movement. Inspired by Marx’s analysis, Lenin did likewise. This book adds to the tradition evolving since Marx and Lenin. Remarkably accessible, it refreshes, provokes, and thereby develops that movement still further.” —Richard Wolff, author of Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/en-us\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e and Olivier Besancenot ‘discovered’ a manuscript written by Jenny, Marx’s daughter, revealing a secret visit of her father to Paris as it was besieged during the fateful weeks of the Commune. Their book is not an exercise in counter-factual history – a ‘what if...’ – but rather an original and inventive form of history writing. They describe the Commune by emphasizing its greatness, pointing out its limitations, and assessing its historical legacy in a pleasant and vigorous literary account. 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The book then moves through the 1960s, when writers, including those in what has been termed the New Wave, shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, growing state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the long Sixties and the faltering of the postwar boom, is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres, such as cyberpunk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDangerous Visions and New Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e contains over twenty chapters written by contemporary authors and critics, and hundreds of full-color cover images, including thirteen thematically organised cover selections. New perspectives on key novels and authors, such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. 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Abdelhadi and O’Brien have created a vivid image of the possibility that we will one day make a home of the world.” —Hannah Black \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The special magic of Everything for Everyone is that it combines the genres of the oral history interview with speculative utopian fiction. Oral histories can show how in their everyday lives ordinary people can make the world. Utopian fiction can show the worlds we might want to be making. Every cook, or sex worker, can govern. And this is the life they might build from the ruins of this civilization, such as it is. Such a pleasure to feel one could be making the world over with them.” —McKenzie Wark, author of The Beach Beneath the Street \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O’Brien are changing the game of what the novel is and what the novel can be. Much as James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Imani Perry did with the epistolary form in non-fiction, Everything for Everyone uses speculative oral history to expand and explode the limits of what fiction can do. Their imagined oral histories from many parties help us understand the present from many possible points of view in the future looking back, like Rashômon meets House of Leaves. In Everything for Everyone, binaries (of male-versus-female, fiction-versus-non-fiction, past-versus-future) are irrelevant compared to something much more interesting and important that Abdelhadi and O’Brien seek to illustrate: truth, and the way we might find liberation in it.” —Steven W. Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I had no idea I was a post-revolution speculative fiction fangirl till I started reading Everything for Everyone, which kicks off with a food riot at the Hunts Point Market led by a sex worker. I’m really bummed out by the fact that I’ll be 82—hopefully!—when their fictional revolution kicks off and dead by the time the dust settles. Exciting to read something hopeful, intersectional and an antidote to our dystopian doldrums.” —Sherry Wolf, author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this genre-bending work of utopian fiction, O'Brien and Abdelhadi imagine a world that might emerge from the ashes of our own. Part speculative social science, part abolitionist manifesto, it explores the social forms and political possibilities of life after capitalism—the novel ways of organizing life, doing gender, and coping with the psychic costs of transformation that may follow the inevitable crises of capital and climate that lie in our future. Like the best utopian fiction, Everything for Everyone is also a startling work of political theory: it gives us the opportunity, as all utopias do, to learn about our own desires and hopes for a way out of our current conjuncture.”—Katrina Forrester, author of In the Shadow of Justice \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Leftists are often accused of being against everything, but not having a vision of what we're fighting for. Everything for Everyone is a corrective, a sweeping vision of the type of world and society we imagine can and will provide for us all, abundantly. Not all beautiful novels are invested in social restructuring, and not all social restructuring is envisaged in novels, but here we have exactly their meeting point: a beautiful novel bristling with the necessary changes we must make to survive on this planet. The future has sex in it, and community; it has food and labor and joy. It has trauma and memories of the harm, the nightmare, of capitalist precarity. The future is sure to exist; will it have us in it? Everything for Everyone imagines that it will, and, given this remarkable vision, this perpetual possibility, it's now our work to live up to it.”—Joseph Osmundson, author of Virology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Everything for Everyone is a window into a possible future and a powerful antidote to our present moment’s ubiquitous moods of anti-utopianism, despair, nostalgia, and capitalist-realism. In this must-read speculative fiction, M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi have skillfully deployed their joint political, sociological, and psychoanalytic intelligence—capacities they have honed through decades of experience of organizing for trans, working class and Palestinian liberation. Together, O’Brien and Abdelhadi have imagined the messy, imperfect, richly fulfilling, and slowly healing collective life that will be post-capitalism. Convincingly, they present us with an ethnography, not of an ideal society, but of a revolutionary one in flux. Never do they lapse into simplistic or deterministic “solutions” to the crises of the present. The twelve denizens of the world whence Abdelhadi and O’Brien are reporting back are survivors and veterans of exhausting, traumatizing, bloody, unforgettable, complicated, and beautiful transformations. \u003cbr\u003e The interviews collected in these pages chronicle the first stages of the abolition of the family; the history of the ecological restoration projects and interplanetary technologies that might render our planet livable and leisurely; the invention of real democracy; and the armed conflagrations that were necessary along the way. So, if you have ever wondered to yourself, What will the triumph of indigenous land struggles, the overthrow of colonial occupations, and the fall of capitalism look like? Which parts of New York would be at the forefront of a communist revolution, and which would double down into religious, hyper-patriarchal fascism? Whose knowledges of facilitation, healing, conflict resolution and partying will help the population heal from its collective trauma?—then this superb novel is the book for you. Upon reaching the end, I had tears in my eyes. I took to heart the injunction of the nineteenth century utopian feminist Charles Fourier, quoted herein: ‘Your behavior should be governed from now on by the ease and proximity of this immense revolution.’”—Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto of Care and Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40446130454621,"sku":"9781942173588","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173588_FC.jpg?v=1661186184"},{"product_id":"after-the-revolution","title":"After the Revolution: A Novel","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-info-main product-details left-section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product attribute description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"value\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA chronicle of serendipitous alliances in a dystopia that's right around the corner.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat will the fracturing of the United States look like? \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the \"old\" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the Christian ethnostate known as the \"Heavenly Kingdom.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOur three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess. This powerful debut novel from Robert Evans is based on his investigative reporting from international conflict zones and on increasingly polarized domestic struggles. It is a vision of our very possible future.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Evans never shies away from showing the ugly results of political unity failing, and he eschews picking easy targets for disapproval, giving equal time to a wide variety of viewpoints and social arrangements. 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It is both an introspective analysis of human society and a roaring and readable adventure.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/margaret-killjoy\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/margaret-killjoy\"\u003eMargaret Killjoy\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/margaret-killjoy\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Country of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Robert’s debut novel kept me glued to the pages—a smart, well-crafted, action-packed military science fiction story that deals with the horrors of war through a trauma-informed lens.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJustine Norton-Kertson, editor-in-chief of Android Press and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSolar Punk Magazine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This is the type of novel where nudist cyborg super-soldiers ride robot horses into battle against bloodthirsty theocrats. Stuff blows up. More stuff blows up. Dudes kill other dudes and then even more chaos ensues. The action all works. Other authors have spilled a lot of ink over America’s internal contradictions, but \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e is unique in its gusto.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoe Streckert, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePortland Mercury\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the Revolution \u003c\/em\u003eis part of the rich vein of speculative fiction that considers Texas as its own republic…For writers interested in imagining how a diverse population might organize itself after being oppressed and ignored by those in power, our state is an ideal setting.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusan Elizabeth Shepard, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTexasMonthly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert Evans\u003c\/strong\u003e, the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Brief History of Vice\u003c\/em\u003e, has had an eclectic career as an investigative journalist reporting from war zones in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine, and reporting on domestic radicalism in the US. He hosts the podcasts \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBehind the Bastards\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt Could Happen Here\u003c\/em\u003e for iHeartRadio, is a writer for the humor website Cracked, and an investigative journalist for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellingcat\u003c\/em\u003e. He resides in Portland, OR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40513703313501,"sku":"9781849354622","price":26.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/aftertherevolution.jpg?v=1740428197"},{"product_id":"we-wont-be-here-tomorrow-and-other-stories","title":"We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpaceships, man-eating mermaids, swords, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material. Ranging in theme and tone, these imaginative tales bring the reader on a wild and moving ride. They’ll encounter a hacker who programs drones to troll CEOs into quitting; a group of LARPers who decide to live as orcs in the burned forests of Oregon; queer, teen love in a death cult; the terraforming of a climate-changed Earth; polyamorous love on an anarchist tea farm during the apocalypse; and much more. Killjoy writes fearless, mind-expanding fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Killjoy is an exciting, radical gust of freshness and anarchic energy that leaves you seeing the world with new eyes. 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Margaret Killjoy knows about resistance and solidarity, about spellcasting and hitchhiking; she also knows about that one ghost whispering to you. Margaret has a singularly principled approach that comes through every story: read this collection to help orient yourself in quiet forests and in near-future battlegrounds alike. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Won’t Be Here Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is the rare book that is both knife-sharp and empathetic, that shows you how to fight and also makes you consider why. 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Thank fuck.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNino Cipri, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinna \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomesick: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Whistling sweetly toward the gallows, Margaret Killjoy’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Won’t Be Here Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e really is all about the friends (and many missteps) we’ll make along the way.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Future Fire\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Suspenseful and thought-provoking, this collection moves skillfully from humor to horror, depicting human strength and determination against forces both supernatural and all too real. We might not be here tomorrow, but we’ll fight like hell today.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRadon Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargaret Killjoy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a transfeminine author born and raised in Maryland who was spent her adult life traveling with no fixed home. A 2015 graduate of Clarion West, Margaret’s short fiction has been published by \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTor.com\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVice’s Terraform\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFireside Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, amongst others. She is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/products\/a-country-of-ghosts\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/countryofghosts.html\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Country of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Barrow Will Send What it May\u003c\/em\u003e. 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These spells are cast with our wellness centered and our humanity uplifted.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChani Nicholas, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou Were Born For This\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFables and Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is potent ancestral cartography. 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The stories reminded me that we all have the capacity to heal and destroy.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJuju Bae, host of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Little Juju Podcast\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“What an exquisite gift this cauldron of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFables and Spells is\u003c\/em\u003e! adrienne maree brown re-enchants our practices of deep listening and spell crafting, calling us to drink deeply and imagine more wildly. A prophetic voice for our time, adrienne (once again!) channels mycelial and celestial wisdom into remedies in the form of radical tales that guide the way to the world we dream of and grief and praise songs that help us realign with life itself. 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