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Catalogue


Book Title Author Category
Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler Speculative Fiction
Parable of the Talents Octavia Butler Speculative Fiction, Sci-fi, utopian/ dystopian
Fiction Practice
Prototyping the Otherworldly
Onomatopee
Edited by Mariana Pestana
Utopian theory, design, education, art
Futurability:
The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi Political Theory
Cruising Utopia:
The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Jose Esteban Munoz Utopian, queer, theory
The Language of the Night:
Essays on fantasy and Science Fiction
Ursula Le Guin Essays, Sci-fi, theory
Abolitionist Demands:
Towards the End of Prisons
in Aotearoa
No Pride in Prisons Prison Abolition, queer, trans, Aotearoa
Dance the Eagle to Sleep Marge Piercy Speculative Fiction
Reworlding Ramallah:
Short Science Fiction Stories from Palestine
Edited by Callum Copley Speculative Fiction
Staying with the Trouble:
Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna J. Haraway ecological relations, environmental theory, world making, speculative
The Jewels of Aptor Samuel R. Delany Science Fiction
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction
Hope Against Hope:
Writing on Ecological Crisis
Out of the Woods Collective Utopian, communist, environmental theory, climate change,
disaster communism, critique of current environmentalist and leftist discourse on climate change
A Paradise Built in Hell:
The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit Environmental disaster, community, glimpses of utopia in disaster
baedan 3:
Journal of Queer Time Travel
baedan Queer theory
The Mushroom at the End of the World:
On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Ecology, science, ethnography, inter species kinship and relations
Memoirs of a Space Woman Naomi Mitchison Science fiction, feminist
The Female Man Joanna Russ Science fiction, feminist
Capitalist Realism:
Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher Theory of Capitalism, the possibility of imagining other realities
The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish Science fiction, feminist, inter-species relationships
Triton Samuel R. Delany Science fiction
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Andrea Lawlor Fantasy, fiction, queer, gender, magical realism
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Ursula K.Le Guin Science fiction, short stories
Walking the Clouds:
An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
Edited by Grace L. Dillon Science fiction, short stories
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void Jackie Wang Poetry
Sad Sack: Collected Writing Sophia Al-Maria Poetry, Prose
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Ursula K. Le Guin Critique of patriarchal story telling and imagining
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Lewis family abolition, surrogacy
The Swan Book Alexis Wright Speculative fiction, climate fiction
Woman on the Edge of Time Marge Piercy Feminist Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel
The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction, Anarchist, Critical Utopia
Collisions:Fictions of the Future Edited by Leah Jing Mcintosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein, Hassan Abul Science Fiction, speculative fiction, People of colour anthology
Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and fantasy from transgender writers Edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett Science Fiction, fantasy, trans, queer, anthology
Carrier Bag Fiction Edited by Sarah Shin and Mathias Zeiske Writing responding to Ursula Le Guin's carrier bag theory of fiction, collected works
The Dawn of Everything David Wengrow and David Graeber history, anthropology, archaeology
All About Love Bell Hooks critical theory, love
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Lola Olufemi poetry, theory, speculative fiction, utopia
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici witchcraft, feminist marxism, primitive accumulation, history of capitalism, colonisation, medecine
Australinama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia Samia Khatun colonial history, First Nations history, south asian/ Australian history, epistemologies, dreams, women's history in Australia
An Apartment on Uranus Paul B. Preciado Essays, Gender, Trans, Hormones, speculative fiction, theory
The Wrtetched of the Earth Frantz Fanono colonisation, racism, essays
Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction Edited by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen Van Neerven short stories, speculative fiction

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