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  • Published: 21 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644211441
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $48.00

Kraken Calling

A Novel



A sweeping near future dystopic fantasy in the Octavia Butlerian vein of the Parable of the Sower novels.
 

A sweeping near future dystopic fantasy in the Octavia Butlerian vein of the Parable of the Sower novels.
 

Political activist and anarchist author Aric McBay (Full Spectrum Resistance) toggles between the years 2028 and 2051 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse.
       In 2028 environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded, the revolution is brought to the activists, rather than the other way around, by an authoritarian government willing to resort to violence, willing to let the majority suffer from hunger and poverty, in order to control its citizens when the government can no longer provide them with a decent quality of life.
        So it is the activists who must defend their communities, their neighbors, through a more humane and in some ways more conservative status quo of care and moderation.
        And the outcome here is determined by the actions of those who resist more than it is by the actions of the nominally powerful.
 

  • Published: 21 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781644211441
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $48.00

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Praise for Kraken Calling

Praise for Full Spectrum Resistance:
“McBay's message of activism and community building is one that should inspire all people concerned about the future of this planet to, in his words: 'fight together for a future worth living in.'” – Pamela Cross, feminist lawyer and activist
“Aric McBay has written a remarkable book that will forever change the way you understand political resistance. We are accustomed to protests that offer a fun playbook of marches, banners, chants, and so on. But McBay is seriously committed to revolutionary transformation and he is not satisfied to examine only those protests that conform comfortably to the usual catechism of non-violence. Nor does he adopt the sociological preoccupations with the social factors that shape the collective effort. Instead, his unwavering focus is on strategies that win.” – Frances Fox Piven, Author of Challenging Authority and Poor People's Movements