TY - ABST T1 - “The Free Orcs of Cascadia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people in role-playing games choose to fashion their lives on the roles they play. The focus is on the conflict between the “Free Orcs” who are anarchists and the fascist Orcines. The Free Orcs live in the town of Gray Morrow located in the remains of a town in the middle of a “scorched graveyard of a Douglas fir” forest (170). They use “Dark Speech” (related to Tolkien’s “Black Speech”), are matriarchal, which is “roughly anarchist,” (the Orcine are patriarchal), and live by their version of “orcish code of honour” that stresses “interdependence between individual sovereignty and collective identity” (171). The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 136.3/4 N1 -

Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 17-35.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story Y1 - 2018 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.

PB - [Detritus Books] CY - [Olympia, WA] SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion Y1 - 2017 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-0-7653-9736-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything That Isn’t Winter Y1 - 2016 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ED - Diana M. Pho KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse future Cascade mountains in what used to be the state of Washington. It focuses on a self-organized community growing tea that is attacked by a group trying to establish an authoritarian government to rebuild the old, bad system.

PB - Tor.com CY - New York SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 UR - https://www.tor.com/2016/10/19/231037/ N1 -

Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 88-105.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country of Ghosts: A Book of The Anarchist Imagination Y1 - 2014 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist novel focusing on the attempt of a growing authoritarian empire to defeat and incorporate an anarchist eutopia, the city of Hronopole. The information on the eutopia comes through the story about the war and the methods it uses to resist the empire.

PB - Combustion Books CY - Np SN - 978-1-938660-13-9 N1 -

Rpt. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2021. Black Dawn Series #2. 212 pp.

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