A Country of Ghosts

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Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all the while a war rages around him The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life From the editor of Mythmakers Lawbreakers Anarchist Writers on Fiction and author of What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower comes a seditious novel of utopia besieged, a novel that challenges every premise of contemporary society. Best Read Kindle ePUB A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy – kino-fada.fr I will have to come back to this for a real review, but it s beautiful, and it s simple, and hopeful, and it contains all the reasons why I m here in Central African Republic right now, too busy to write the strong book reviews that good books deserve, working alongside local volunteers to support farmers to plant food crops after horrific authoritarian sectarian violence, the kind that lumps all people of one particular characteristic as guilty for the violence done by armed factions of another I will have to come back to this for a real review, but it s beautiful, and it s simple, and hopeful, and it contains all the reasons why I m here in Central African Republic right now, too busy to write the strong book reviews that good books deserve, working alongside local volunteers to support farmers to plant food crops after horrific authoritarian sectarian violence, the kind that lumps all people of one particular characteristic as guilty for th...A beautiful, thought provoking dream of a quasi 19th century anarchist country fighting for its existence against an expansionist empire.I can still remember the image of a bunch of crustypunks huddled under a frozen waterfall amidst the vast mountains, playing music and fighting off the stench of death I remember the protagonist s silent, introspective train ride into his own future, and the love and violence that would follow.This is an explicitly didactic book, intended to describe and exp A beautiful, thought provoking dream of a quasi 19th century anarchist country fighting for its existence against an expansionist empire.I can still remember the image of a bunch of crustypunks huddled under a frozen waterfall amidst the vast mountains, playing music and fighting off the stench of death I remember the protagonist s silent, introspective train ride into his own future, and the love and violence that would follow.This is...Caveat Killjoy edited published one of my short stories in Steampunk Magazine several years back, a story which went on to be anthologized and reprinted in numerous other fora, so while we ve never met, i can t say i m a total impartial stranger However, i m also not someone who just throws around 5 reviews or gives bullshit positive reviews of stuff i didn t actually love, and i really enjoyed this novel.I found the worldbuilding engaging, the narrator charming Dimos might well have been a Caveat Killjoy edited published one of my short stories in Steampunk Magazine several years back, a story which went on to be anthologized and reprinted in numerous other fora, so while we ve never met, i can t say i m a total impartial stranger However, i m...This book is I think the first in a series by publisher Combustion Books called The Anarchist Imagination , designed to showcase fiction that explores anarchist utopias If that makes you think, gee, a noble and interesting idea, but it sure sounds like it might be preachy and didactic, well, you would be right, but this is a surpris...There are a lot of great things I can say about this book The thoughtful portrayal of its war weary protagonist is the real gem in this fantastical examination of a anarchistic society Dimos Horacki is a journalist, presenting us with his admittedly biased view of a war between an imperialist state and a country of free thinking individualists who barely consider themselves an organized nation.Killjoy is a pleasure to read, blending classic science fiction with an evolved view of s...Fantastic and inspiring If you want an honest glimpse at a truly free society, pick this up Finished it in 2 daysDimos, a mainstream but disenchanted journalist, lives in an imperialist nation resembling Victorian Britain He s embedded in the army to record them subduing a savage mountain expanse When he arrives, instead he s recruited into an anarchist society with a reasonable sense of how to defend itself Knowing most of this afore, A Country of Ghosts twas still not what I expected.I knew it was an anarchist utopian novel,and I thought it would belike anarchist utopian novels I ve read Ackno Dimos, a mainstream but disenchanted journalist, lives in an imperialist nation resembling Victorian Britain He s embedded in the army to record them subduing a savage mountain expanse When he arrives, instead he s recruited into an anarchist society with a reasonable sense of how to defend itself Knowing most of this afore, A Country of Ghosts twas still not what I expected.I knew it was an anarchist utopian novel,and I thought it would belike anarchist utopian novels I ve read Acknowledgements include Ursula K Le Guin, Starhawk, and Graham Purchase, for exploring this terrain before me I m not familiar with a utopian novel by Graham Purchase, but The Dispossessed by Le Guin and The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk were very different in tone than A Country of Ghosts Le Guin s anarcho planet represents the humanistic wing of sci fi libertarianism Starhawk s sci fi thriller is rooted in the anarchist tendencies of the peace, ecological, and socialistic move...This being my first venture into the Anarchist Utopian Fiction realm I was rather excited to see what this story was made of I d have to admit that as far as fiction goes while horror mysteries, romantic love stories, futuristic sci fi, tales of james bond like spies, and street fiction are all the craze, I was interested in seeing a story told from a place that I m personally struggling to help create everyday The future seems bleak but in this story the future of anarchist principles and e This being my first venture into the Anarchist Utopian Fiction realm I was rather excited to see what this story was made of I d have to admit that as far as fiction goes while horror mysteries, romantic love stories, futuristic sci fi, tales of james bond like spies, and street fiction are all the craze, I was interested in seeing a story told from a place that I m personally struggling to help create everyday The future seems bleak but in this story the future of anarchist principles and everyday praxis thereof have arrived and are espoused through the story in the different situations the characters find and have found themselves in The story begins with a journalist who is sent to report back...Eagerly awaiting the appearance of explicitly anarchist genre fiction has been a long wait for a train that hasn t arrived and, while I ve filled my own notebooks with outlines for mysteries, fantasies, and YA while sitting at the station, Killjoy has published an excellent novel.By appearances and approach this is a fantasy novel but magic and dragons are wisely eschewed for grittier realism as we tag along with the foreign correspondent This device allows the reader to experience the discover Eagerly awaiting the appearance of explicitly anarchist genre fiction has been a long wait for a train that hasn t arrived and, while I ve filled my own notebooks with outlines for mysteries, fantasies, and YA while sitting at the station, Killjoy has published an excellent novel.By appearances and approach this is a fantasy novel but magic and dragons are wisely eschewed for grittier realism as we tag along with the foreig...3.5 Leaving aside the war violence, this was a fun read for an anarchist showing the different ways that people who identify as anarchist interpret it for themselves and apply it to their own lives The main character s journalism role helps explain some of the how does anarchi...

A Country of Ghosts
  • 27 March 2018
  • Paperback
  • 200 pages
  • 1938660137
  • Margaret Killjoy
  • A Country of Ghosts