Anarchism and science fiction: J


Malcolm Jameson: The Anarch’ (1944)

Published in Astounding in 1944, this concerns a rebel against a future totalitarian autarchy, who strikes a deal with the Autarch under which his own role is formalised as the Anarch, acting as antithesis. Out of their engagement a new democracy is born, based on representative democracy. The Autarch decides to run for President. The only real ideological base is classical liberalism, with Mill's On Liberty cited explicitly.

 

Richard Jefferies: After London (1885)

For Arthur Uloth, "This strange book has not the compulsive power of 1984. Yet it wears better than many other prophecies, and could still come true." (Uloth 1963)


Michel Jeury: L’Univers Ombre (1979)

Libertarian utopia.

Mór Jókai: A jövö század regénye ["The Novel of the Next Century"] (1872)

In the most significant sf novel (still untranslated) by Hungary's greatest author, airplanes made of a marvellous new material - ichor - serve the heroes, who dominate global communications and trade; "declaring war on anarchistic Russia, they fight the last war of mankind and create eternal peace." (SFE)

 

David Glyn Jones: The Machine (2010)

Blurb: There is only THE MACHINE and those who live within it. Told through the unconventional, simple language of blue 7, one of the millions of workers who scurry through its metallic entrails, THE MACHINE tells of a brutal regime and the beginnings of rebellion within . . .
Working without purpose and without end, humanity lives and slaves to maintain the huge mechanical leviathan, beyond which there is nothing. Blue 7 has spent his lifetime working and wondering the function of THE MACHINE, but someone has noticed him, and slowly his world begins to unravel in a bloodsoaked violent struggle that threatens not only him, but THE MACHINE itself. A sharp anarchist critique of the modern world devoid of imagination and freedom, THE MACHINE pierces through the thin surface of western capitalism, and asks difficult questions of modernity.
 

Gwyneth Jones: ‘2020: I am an Anarchist’ (2002)

Included in Killjoys list of stories that feature sympathetic anarchist characters.

 

Vincent Judson (or Lyman Spicer V. Judson): Solution PNC and PNCLand (1973)

Anarcho-capitalist utopia.

 

 


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