Ursula K. Le Guin 1978 192p 5 x 8 In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups–the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers–live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, where the City Bosses rule the Shantih … Continue reading The Eye of Heron →

Italo Calvino 1970 300p 5 x 8 Blending reality and illusion, this collection of short stories deals with love and loneliness. $5-10 Other works involving italo calvino, fiction

David Wojnarowicz     1997     227p     5.5 x 8 Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in the 1980s as an outspoken AIDS activist, anti-censorship advocate, artist, and writer. Written as short monologues, each of these powerful, early works of autobiographical fiction is spoken in the voice … Continue reading The Waterfront Journals →

Ursula K. Le Guin   2003   256p   MMPB In this collection of short stories each chapter describes a different world and the society that inhabits it; these societies share similarities with Earth’s cultures in some respects, but may be notably dissimilar in other respects. Many of the chapters are brief vignettes or ethnographic … Continue reading Changing Planes →

Margaret Atwood 2001 521p 6 x 9 The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.’ They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. … Continue reading The Blind Assassin →

George Orwell 1947 140p MMPB A concise novella dealing with the rise and betrayal of the revolution waged by over-worked animals on a little farm. A great explanation of recuperation and the corruption of power. $1-5 Other works involving george orwell, totalitarianism, recuperation, communism, work, stalin, dystopia, fiction

A Novel Margaret Atwood 1996 468p 5.5 x 8 Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and … Continue reading Alias Grace →

Dennis Danvers     2002     368p     5 x 8 In 1921 Russia, a mysterious visitor from the far future comes to Peter Kropotkin’s deathbed and offers the world-renowned anarchist philosopher a new life. Kropotkin — the one-time prince who renounced wealth and privilege to embrace the cause of anarchy, the dying … Continue reading The Watch →

A Novel Margaret Atwood     2004     389p     5 x 8   $5-10 Other works involving margaret atwood, fiction, dystopia, post-apocalyptic, collapse

The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture Franklin Rosemont     2003     650p     5 x 8 A massive and thorough take on the life of Joe Hill (1877-1915), one of the best-known figures in the heroic history of the Industrial Workers of the World. U.S. labor’s most world-renowned … Continue reading Joe Hill →