The Free: updated ebook of the 5th print edition
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''It is the most detailed fictional treatment of the movement from a world recognizably like our own to an anarchist society that I have read. More importantly, it is imagined strongly enough to allow readers to believe that events could happen this way''. Dr Daniel P. Jaeckle, author of 'Embodied Anarchy in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed'
Adventure/Thriller..
Maxie rebels and runs away, with the anarcha-feminists, occupiers and gays.. Set during the collapse of capitalism, amid climate chaos, we live out the social and permaculture revolution, and the dawn of a money-free world
Accompany Linda through her hilarious, terrible day, as she:-escapes her useless school and abusive daddy,-changes her name to Maxie and falls in with the anarcha feminists, squatters and gays.
The State is going bottoms up, the Climate is going crazy, we're living the collapse of capitalism, blow by blow, with a rainbow.Maxie and her new friends get free of their traumas,and get into dealing subversive death blows, to a skinhead gang,a bankrupt school and the testerical special police.
Next thing they flee to Ragwort CoOp Pool,in a big safe occupied working class area. We play the adventure live through their eyes, laughing and lamenting… inventing social revolution.The PIF soldiers eventually arrive, to restore capitalist chaos, Macker and Maxie are missing, the hunt begins, while the spaced out invaders get subverted, corrupted, swallowed and (burp) digested.
Our odd family puzzles with the pieces.. finding a fun lifestyle,a coppice farm, and bright ideas for saving The Planet, but keep your hankies ready, folks.. click on your giant wings, for the fantastic FLYING finale!
Thanks everyone for your help with this project..
Read or Free Download on the blog click: http://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/also available on Google Books, Scribd, Issuu, Anarchist Library .
The printed ‘dead tree’ book is available here: https://www.createspace.com/3702134 costs 10€, or $14.
I'm promoting The Free on the Wordpress blog, posting stuff on the themes of the book: feminism, anarchism, social revolution, squatting, permaculture.... it's fun and I enjoy 'gimping images'... by now it has 3,170 'Fiends on Farcebook' and over 227,000 views of the blog! Twice reached no.7 on Authonomy.
some comments... ONLY THE GOOD ONES
'This book is a gas, terrific writing,a wonderful and likely prophetic story for the near future' .. Jim Mac.
'It creates poetry out the strange internal rhythms and logic of the main character, full of off-beat rhythms and lyrical leitmotifs'...Rob Stewart
“The Free. An unbelievably exciting book, not because of its stupendous pace and action filled plot, but because of the depth of character holding us breathless as we explore one after another of these amazing people.’’ Gerry McCullough-
'Yahoo! It is in acts, has skin and is feminist, what more can one want .Truly supported'. A Zoomer
'This book is truly unique. The characters and plot flow like water, and are tasty like chocolate'. A.A.
'It's sexy and wonderful and just pure joy... a breathless celebration of life... Gold in its purest literary form'. Bec
Thanks again everyone for your help and support with this project.
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About the author
Who cares who I am?
Just so the book can be neatly labelled and filed away?.
“I knew it! ...an evil anarchist!
Who I am is not important here, except to show, perhaps,
that I am serious, about these scribbles.
So here goes...
After a boring education (I did Eng. Lit. and a thesis on De-Schooling) I began a rather brilliant career as a layabout. Passing my idle hours on Adventure Playgrounds, Street Theater, Anti Nukes and Subversive Nonsense,.
For several years I shared a magnificent squat in central Amsterdam, before definitively dossing down in Brixton, with a creditable six and a half years on the dole.
While whiling away my life doing Squatters Aid, Pirate Radio and Partying I enjoyed superb park-view accommodation, and jotted down the first version of this book for the class-less Hooligan Press.
Retiring extremely early to Barcelona beach, I was horrified to have to work and even pay rent. But then the occupations took off, and I ended up living in a 'Social Center' (on top of a mountain.).
Here I play around with gardens and old cars, and, um,
look after children and horses... I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella and my hobbies include solar-powered internet and, er, rooting in bins.
We have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets.
I do have one big son, who's 15 years old and speaks 4 languages (not all at once).
Thanks again everyone for your help and support with this project.
