Anarchism and science fiction

 


 

My original pages now have a new home in a vastly superior format at anarchySF. The new site has taken over with my blessing, and with new editors, Eden Kupermintz and Yanai Sened.

anarchySF, as well as bringing this material into the 21st century, for the first time invites you to contribute your own entries, or suggest changes to what's already there.

 

Meanwhile, so as not to completely lose sight of my personal take on this theme, I am initiating, here, my own anarchySF Hall of Fame. Each year I will add one title published in the last five years, and one classic title.

 

My criteria for a printed work is as follows:

  • It must clearly be science fiction, and not fantasy

  • It must be explicitly anarchist, sympathetic to anarchism, or by an author who self-identifies as anarchist

  • It must be in, or translated into, English

  • It must be in print at the time of listing

Recent publications

 
Year Author Novel
2025 Gautam Bhatia The Sentence
2024   no award
2023 and 2022 D.D. Johnstone

M.E. O'Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

 

Disnaeland

Everything for Everyone. An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

     

Classics

   
2025 Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings Anarquía. An Alternate History of the Spanish Civil War (2004)
2024 Yevgeny Zamyatin We (1920)
2023 and 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin

William Morris

The Dispossessed (1974)

News from Nowhere (1890)

 

 

For film and television the same criteria apply, with the rider that all entries are assumed to be currently available.

 

Recent productions

   
Award year Broadcast year Film TV production
2025  

2011/2025

no award

 

 

Black Mirror

2024   no award

 

 

no award

2023 and 2022   no award

 

no award
       

Classics

     
Award year Release year Film TV production
2025 1996

1954

La Belle Verte

 

 

Nineteen Eight-Four

2024 1985

2012/2014

Brazil

 

 

Real Humans (Swedish Äkta människor)

2023 and 2022 1983

1967/1968

Born in Flames

 

 

The Prisoner

 

 

 

 


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