An apocalypse is always both an ending and a beginning.

Workers must identify with everything they do.

“We must learn to see [work] differently: no longer as something we have—or do not have—but as *what we do.*”

“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”

However real and strong a memory is, it is still an echo, still a reflection, not the experience itself.

Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.

Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.

Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.

Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.

“We have witnessed transformation too often to dismiss its possibility, and we have an obligation to that possibility.”

“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.

Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.

An autonomy that’s as integrated into society as the healthcare it enables is integrated across mind, body, and spirit.

After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare to thousands of people.

Freedom requires uncertainty.

“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.

Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.