Leslie Fish (n.d.), an accomplished folk singer and one of the creators of the “Filk” tradition (science-fiction/fantasy themed music), is also an author, anarchist, and Wobbly. She once wrote a guide to surviving the apocalypse in the form of an album, Firestorm, in which she relayed information about making antibiotics, gunpowder, and lenses. She also practices that renown form of plagiarism, fan-fiction, having fan-published a novel taking place in the Star Trek universe. She took part in writing a collaborative fantasy trilogy, The Sword of Knowledge, of which she authored the first book, A Dirge for Sabis.

Author’s website:

lesliefish.com

Novel available from Amazon.com:

• Dirge for Sabis

Video of song explaining why to aim carefully rather than turning your gun on full-auto:

Wikipedia:

Leslie Fish

The Catastraphone Orchestra (2006–) might be one of the only bands of musicians that writes fiction together. A collection of chain-smokers, mad scientists, and drug-addled minds, they write in the long-antiquated “seasonal” style of fiction as well as penning manifestos and journalistic forays into the past.

Stories available online:

• “Mother of the Dispossessed” in SteamPunk Magazine #1
• “Unbound Muscle” in SteamPunk Magazine #2
• “Antonio’s Answer” in SteamPunk Magazine #4

Other, non-fiction work by The Catastrophone Orchestra has appeared in the freely downloadable SteamPunk Magazine as well as on a no-longer-updated LiveJournal page.

Professor Calamity from The Catastrophone Orchestra was interviewed about anarchism and fiction in Mythmakers and Lawbreakers.

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is famous today as the author of A Clockwork Orange, but it was only one of his over 30 novels. He said that he deeply regretted how the film adaptation seemed to glorify sexual violence, and how easily people misread that book. He was also an anarchist: “I’ve never had any money, therefore I’ve no sympathy for capitalists … I suppose I end up as an anarchist” (from Anthony Burgess, a biography by Roger Lewis, 2002). In his younger life, while serving in the British army, he was often in trouble for defying authority, including being arrested for insulting Spanish fascist Franco. In addition to being a novelist, he was an accomplished literary critic, linguist, composer.

From Ben Beck’s Anarchism and Science Fiction:

… the first part of Burgess’s 1985 – displays an extensive knowledge of the anarchist movement, its history and philosophy. References to the Spanish Civil War or to Sacco & Vanzetti are unusual but not unique in sf, but Burgess’s mention of an anarchist youth movement in China’s Yunan province almost certainly is. A chapter entitled ‘Bakunin’s Children’ actually incorporates a three-page biographical portrait of Bakunin, whom he describes as ‘the rank meat in a more rational anarchical sandwich, tastier than the dry bread of theory that Proudhon offered before him and Kropotkin after.’

Novels available on Amazon:

• The Long Day Wanes
• The Right to an Answer
• The Doctor Is Sick
• One Hand Clapping
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Wanting Seed
• Honey for the Bears
• The Complete Enderby
• The Eve of Saint Venus
• Nothing Like the Sun
• A Vision of Battlements
• Tremor of Intent
• M/F
• Beard’s Roman Women
• Abba Abba
• 1985
• Man of Nazareth
• Earthly Powers
• The End of the World News
• The Kingdom of the Wicked
• Piano Players
• Any Old Iron
• Mozart and the Wolf Gang
• A Dead Man in Deptford
• Byrne

Short story collections from Amazon:

• The Devil’s Mode

Screenplays on IMDB (all biblical):

• Moses the Lawgiver
• Jesus of Nazareth
• A.D.

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Gabriel Boyer (1976–) is a musician, a playwright, a singer, a publisher, a writer, an anarchist, and a wanderer. He and a friend run Mutable Sound, a book publisher and music label, which has released three of his books, including A Survey of My Failures Thus Far, a collection of seven books from schizophrenic detective novels to gaming manuals for the creation of the game. He wrote and directed an anarchist musical, Free-Thinking as Commodity, while living on an anarchist farm outside Eugene, and he traveled the country practicing bedroom theatre, performing plays in people’s bedrooms.

Boyer has a bio on mutable sound.

Fiction available from Mutable Sound:

• How to Tell the Living from the Dead
• A Survey of My Failures Thus Far

Music available from Mutable Sound:

• The Textbook Tapes

Fabrizio De André (1940–1999), a renowned Italian songwriter, poet, and anarchist, was known for his epic and political music. He translated the works of Leonard Cohen (among others) into Italian, and he wrote a novel, Un destino ridicolo (A Ridiculous Fate). He made the island of Sardinia his home, and was once kidnapped and ransomed by Sardinian rebels (terrorists/freedom-fighters, take your pick). After his father—a wealthy industrialist who had once been an anti-fascist partisan—paid his ransom, and the kidnappers were brought to trial, Fabrizio reportedly told the court that the rebels “They were the real prisoners, not I.” (Although he did not offer sympathy to the higher-ups in the rebel group, who were wealthy already.)

Wikipedia:
Fabrizio De André

Un destino ridicolo:
Available from unilibro.it (no known English translations.) This book was also filmed as Amore che vieni, amore che vai in 2008.

Music: