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A Country of Ghosts

by Margaret Killjoy

Anarchist society under imperial pressure

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Anarchist society under imperial pressure

Dimos Horacki begins as a Borolian journalist sent to the front with the Imperial Army, where colonial expansion becomes a lived reality. His journey through villages and homesteads leads to Hronople, a refugee city built from glass, steel, and stone. Around him, the empire’s pursuit of coal and iron collides with the anarchists’ effort to defend their community and its way of life. The novel frames that conflict as a question of how a society organized around different principles might withstand outside assault, placing political ideals and wartime pressures at the center of its speculative setting.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in political science fiction and anarchist communities.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving colonial expansion, war, and resistance.
  • Readers looking for speculative settings shaped by social and political conflict.

Themes

Anarchism and communityColonial expansionWar and resistanceUtopia under threat

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Book overview

An epic political fantasy in the tradition of Tepper and Le Guin that explores the question of what an anarchist community can do to resist the assaults that are sure to come if any such social formation were to exist.

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 while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life. A Country of Ghosts is a novel of utopia besieged and a tale that challenges every premise of contemporary society.

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