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Another Now

Yanis Varoufakis

3.81 AVERAGE

danhf's review against another edition

2.0

Well-intentioned but also overtly didactic and mechanical in a way that good sf literature simply isn't.

nes_coffee_ic's review against another edition

4.0

Excellent idea

lillacsillag's review against another edition

3.0

I was pleasantly surprised by the style in which this book was written; as I'd only read Talking to My Daughter and seen a couple of Varoufakis' interviews and talks prior to reading this I was expecting it to be an essay collection or something along those lines. instead he uses a sci-fi (adjacent) story as a framework to explore this 'Other Now' - the plot follows a character who accidentally opens up a wormhole into an alternate universe (in which the system was completely overthrown and reworked post 2008 financial crisis) and is able to communicate with himself in the Other Now. this worked for me because it allows you to just proceed on the assumption that this is a functioning society rather than something that is being hypothesised and so Varoufakis' ideas come across more cohesively. he has a lot of interesting propositions and although it could be very technical at times it was fascinating to read about a fully-conceptualised system that is wholly anti-capitalist. could be a little self-congratulatory at times but definitely an interesting read overall.

itsameelias's review against another edition

4.0

A challenging book to imagine a different way society could be organized. A true antithesis to "there is no alternative". Many inspiring and enlightening ideas, which was what I expected going in the book. The fictional device that the author used to convey his thoughts fluctuated in efficiency. Having read his non-fiction, i have no doubt that he would have been able to present the ideas without the fictional aspect. By the end of the book, the focus seems to be lost a bit in the effort to make the fictional world believable, and I feel at that point the author may have diverted from the original goal by spending time exploring the technicalities of communicating with a parallel universe. But the overall experience of the book is positive. It offers a lot of food for thought, and a sense of hopefulness as well

rosa_goncalves's review against another edition

2.0

It was ok. Not really a good sci-fi book, but it is interesting how it is written in a dialectic style. The alternative now is sometimes not credible or sometimes not alternative enough. The characters were a bit cliché.