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it's almost MAY DAY, comrades
so here's thread of working class & revolutionary books from the pens of speculative/weird/alt/whatever writers to read until the revolution comes
LIKE & RT & SEIZE THE MEANS (by plugging your fav prole writers below)
it's almost MAY DAY, comrades
so here's thread of working class & revolutionary books from the pens of speculative/weird/alt/whatever writers to read until the revolution comes
LIKE & RT & SEIZE THE MEANS (by plugging your fav prole writers below)
let's get this capitalist piggishness first:
my books THE MOLD FARMER from @6GPress & LEECH GIRL LIVES from @ReadSpaceBoy *both* include climactic (if ill-fated) worker uprisings
they may not exactly bring victory for the workers but they still kick a lot of ruling class ass!
my books THE MOLD FARMER from @6GPress & LEECH GIRL LIVES from @ReadSpaceBoy *both* include climactic (if ill-fated) worker uprisings
they may not exactly bring victory for the workers but they still kick a lot of ruling class ass!
next up: in THE RUST MAIDENS by @GwendolynKiste, a hollowed out mill town crumbles and so do its daughters in a timely and creepy tale that revels in & reveals the horrors of capital flight https://bookshop.org/books/the-rust-maidens/9781947654440
then there's @artificts' TROUBLESHOOTING, a near-future dystopia where an autistic prisoner of the prison-industrial complex faces off against oppressors both institutional & patriarchal -- and does major damage while protecting those closest to her https://bookshop.org/books/troubleshooting-glitch-in-the-system-book-one/9781947647008
for something a bit more irreverent, there's TO ANOTHER ABYSS! by @ZachIsASkull, featuring a badass manic pixie Marxist revolutionary who teams up with a spoiled rich gallery owner against (wait for it....) a Lovecraftian horror from beyond! https://bookshop.org/books/to-another-abyss/9780999786222
oh and anthologies!
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by @adriennemaree et al is a FANTASTIC collection of stories by writers who are doing the hard work of struggling to make real change https://bookshop.org/books/octavia-s-brood-science-fiction-stories-from-social-justice-movements-9781849352093/
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by @adriennemaree et al is a FANTASTIC collection of stories by writers who are doing the hard work of struggling to make real change https://bookshop.org/books/octavia-s-brood-science-fiction-stories-from-social-justice-movements-9781849352093/
also the anthology ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare edited by @Bainwrites et al is like, just out right now! it looks rad af & can be ordered direct from @CursedMorsels: https://twitter.com/CursedMorsels/status/1387891965824540672?s=20
you want realism you say?
well hell it doesn't get more real than @sampinkisalive's furiously strange books of stream of consciousness worker struggles
start with THE ICE CREAM MAN & get addicted to the bleak hilarity he finds in everyday suffering https://bookshop.org/books/the-ice-cream-man-and-other-stories/9781593765934
well hell it doesn't get more real than @sampinkisalive's furiously strange books of stream of consciousness worker struggles
start with THE ICE CREAM MAN & get addicted to the bleak hilarity he finds in everyday suffering https://bookshop.org/books/the-ice-cream-man-and-other-stories/9781593765934
also REAL AF and funny/devastating: What About the Rest of Your Life, a deadpan memoir of genderqueer struggles, racist violence and suburban hell @killdads
unflinching & furious
unflinching & furious
haha whoops here's the link to that last one
http://www.perfectdaybooks.com/shop/sungyim
I need to take a break from this soon but I AM NOT DONE
if you're reading this you should plug some good working class lit too
hell, plug your own thing if you want! I'll RT it
http://www.perfectdaybooks.com/shop/sungyim
I need to take a break from this soon but I AM NOT DONE
if you're reading this you should plug some good working class lit too
hell, plug your own thing if you want! I'll RT it
like hey Lars Breaxface: Werewolf in Space by my comrade @brandon_getz might not be an obvious fit, what with all its dildo golem violence etc
however! it climaxes w/ an actual OCTOBER REVOLUTION ANALOG to bring down vampire capitalists
therefore: RAD AF https://bookshop.org/books/lars-breaxface-werewolf-in-space/9781951393755
however! it climaxes w/ an actual OCTOBER REVOLUTION ANALOG to bring down vampire capitalists
therefore: RAD AF https://bookshop.org/books/lars-breaxface-werewolf-in-space/9781951393755
speaking of bringing down capitalists and doing the hard work of struggling to bring real change, dig @ambernoelle's AND I DO NOT FOR GIVE YOU is the perfect story collection for getting in the mood for going CHOPPY CHOPPY with the patriarchy https://bookshop.org/books/and-i-do-not-forgive-you-stories-and-other-revenges/9781631496202
trying to stick to fellow hardscrabble small press scribblers for this but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention @doctorow's novella collection RADICALIZED -- especially the title story in which the for-profit insurance industry meets its match
https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/
https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/
fellow traveler @Andrewosaurus96 meanwhile forces readers to face the mysterious authority of bizarro oppressors in ALL HAIL THE HOUSE GODS
you've heard of "property is theft"
in Stone's book, property takes *you* https://www.amazon.com/Hail-House-Gods-Andrew-Stone/dp/1946335207
you've heard of "property is theft"
in Stone's book, property takes *you* https://www.amazon.com/Hail-House-Gods-Andrew-Stone/dp/1946335207
& @NMamatas!
the vanguard's vanguard helming the unlikely leaderless soviet of the weird fiction left, his THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING is probably the most class war-y place to start https://bookshop.org/books/the-people-s-republic-of-everything/9781616963002
tho my fav is his contribution to Salvage https://salvage.zone/in-print/the-person-who-was-followed-around-by-men-in-pig-masks-a-play-in-one-act/
the vanguard's vanguard helming the unlikely leaderless soviet of the weird fiction left, his THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF EVERYTHING is probably the most class war-y place to start https://bookshop.org/books/the-people-s-republic-of-everything/9781616963002
tho my fav is his contribution to Salvage https://salvage.zone/in-print/the-person-who-was-followed-around-by-men-in-pig-masks-a-play-in-one-act/
more small press suggestions pls!
more from famous authors b/c hey, theyre amazing & their nightmare visions of retail worker life are essential for confronting the true horrors of bourgeoisie exploitation: @NK_Adjei's FRIDAY BLACK & @carmenmmachado's HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES
more from famous authors b/c hey, theyre amazing & their nightmare visions of retail worker life are essential for confronting the true horrors of bourgeoisie exploitation: @NK_Adjei's FRIDAY BLACK & @carmenmmachado's HER BODY & OTHER PARTIES
oh hey @DemSocialists runs annual lists of books by members so that's bound to be a rad source for May Day reads https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/books-by-dsa-authors/
