A New World In Our Hearts

In this episode, we interview absolute legend Ken MacLeod about utopias in science fiction. And yes, we’re talking about the Culture. Of course we’re talking about the Culture.

Show Notes:

The Early Days of a Better Nation
Russian Cosmism
Utopia and the Return of History
Postwar as the war generation’s utopia
China 2019, just before the pandemic
Reading/Watching List
The Culture, Iain M. Banks
News From Nowhere, William Morris
Half-Earth Socialism: https://www.half.earth/
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Green-Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
Red Star by Alexander Bogdanov
Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis
Desert by Anonymous
The English Utopia by A.L. Morton
Utopia by Thomas More
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Elysium (2013)
The Creator (2023)
Noon Universe by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Lenin Lives by Philip Cunliffe
Merrie England by Robert Blatchford
Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson