Tag Archive for: Thrutopia

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The Morningside | Téa Obreht

 

Silvia and her mother are refugees on Island City after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future. They end up living and working alongside Silvia’s aunt Ena at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower abandoned to climate change.

Silvia knows almost nothing about the place she was born and spent her early years; nor does she know why she and her mother had to leave. But Ena gives the young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland.

Startling, inventive, and profoundly moving, The Morningside is a novel about the stories we tell, and the stories we refuse to tell, to make sense of where we came from, and who we hope we might become.

“Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial divisions – together more dystopian than any dystopian novel – the book surprised me most with its undercurrent of hope.”

Jessamine Chan, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

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Any Human Power | Manda Scott

 

Manda Scott, known to many as the host of the Accidental Gods podcast and a writer of acclaimed historical fiction, has conjured an ambitious, gripping literary thriller which posits a Thrutopia in which hope and perseverance steer humankind towards a sustainable and just future.

Set in a near-future world in the midst of environmental collapse and narrated by a wise matriarch with otherworldly powers, the narrative follows a family and its global networks as they navigate the treacheries of social media and a corrupt political system predicated on endless, impossible growth. Switching seamlessly between the cosmic and the granular, the novel is both a cautionary tale of late-stage capitalism and a celebration of the ingenuity and tenacity that ordinary people can summon in the face of grief, injustice, and world-scale turmoil.

BEYOND THE BRINK IS THE BEGINNING | RICHARD WAIN

 

“Wain’s poetry collection is full of sharply-crafted insights into the world we have, and the ways we might open our doors to something different that we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us – which is the living definition of Thrutopian writing.

We build the worlds we want to see, and we imagine them into being. And then there are ley lines stretching out across the terrain of the collective unconscious and others can walk them, and others and others. Until the day they feel like the way everyone has always walked.” – Manda Scott

THE MARS HOUSE | NATASHA PULLEY

 

 

“Hands down, Natasha Pulley is one of the greatest writers of our generation.  If the human race survives beyond this crisis point, I fully expect our descendants to look back on her entire body of work as little short of genius. Her shaping of language, of character and the clarity and skill of her plots – to say nothing of the deeply scientific underlay and the rather clever experiments with time, leaves me ever in awe.

None of her books to date has been strictly Thrutopian- until now. If we stretch points a little, The Mars House is an examination of how things can go very, very badly wrong – and potentially how human nature leans towards decency in the end.” – Manda Scott

 

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NOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE | CLAIRE NORTH

 

Claire North started writing when she was 14 years old.  This doesn’t guarantee that she’s a writing genius – but actually, she is. Notes from the Burning Age is set in a post-apocalyptic future where The Burning Age is a time remembered with great fear: humanity pushed too hard and the spirits of the earth, returned to exact…not quite revenge because they don’t care about people, but they did what they must to stop further damage and humanity barely survived…magically written.” – Manda Scott