Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution Sequence. 300 Years of weird Trots in space!
Start with book 2 The Stone Canal, in which a mutualist from the 70s wakes up dead on an alien world run by his ML-Turned Libertarian Frenemy who has corrupted every principle he fought for.
Graydon Saunders The Commonweal
Imagine if someone broke reality and created magic as a heritable trait. Now fast forward 400,000 years past multiple thousands of mind controlling immortal evil overlords, magical rewriting of deep time, and a world that makes Fallout look habitable (Ducks are now giant, breath fire, kill single digit percentages of the population, and are essential ecosystem components keeping out the really bad stuff like Unicorns.)
Now imagine a radical egalitarian socialist republic managed to shrug off the mind control, deal with the fact that not being able to mind control the land makes it a death world, create a collective magic form more powerful than the god-kings, integrate the god-kings fed up of this eternal war shit, and is currently trying to hold on French Revolution style.
It's been 300 years, it's still too early to tell.
It is, some notes about reading the Commonweal cause you might bounce hard if you don't know what the authorial intent is.
There's almost no infodumping so you're not supposed to have a clue about the context of what's happening at first, and the style of writing is deliberately strange as it's supposed to be a direct translation of a language constructed along egalitarian values (so sex exists and childrearing roles exist but gendered pronouns do not, also dates, weights etc are French Revolutionary based.)
Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution Sequence. 300 Years of weird Trots in space!
Start with book 2 The Stone Canal, in which a mutualist from the 70s wakes up dead on an alien world run by his ML-Turned Libertarian Frenemy who has corrupted every principle he fought for.
Graydon Saunders The Commonweal
Imagine if someone broke reality and created magic as a heritable trait. Now fast forward 400,000 years past multiple thousands of mind controlling immortal evil overlords, magical rewriting of deep time, and a world that makes Fallout look habitable (Ducks are now giant, breath fire, kill single digit percentages of the population, and are essential ecosystem components keeping out the really bad stuff like Unicorns.)
Now imagine a radical egalitarian socialist republic managed to shrug off the mind control, deal with the fact that not being able to mind control the land makes it a death world, create a collective magic form more powerful than the god-kings, integrate the god-kings fed up of this eternal war shit, and is currently trying to hold on French Revolution style.
It's been 300 years, it's still too early to tell.
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It is, some notes about reading the Commonweal cause you might bounce hard if you don't know what the authorial intent is.
There's almost no infodumping so you're not supposed to have a clue about the context of what's happening at first, and the style of writing is deliberately strange as it's supposed to be a direct translation of a language constructed along egalitarian values (so sex exists and childrearing roles exist but gendered pronouns do not, also dates, weights etc are French Revolutionary based.)