Here is a collection of resources that have been and/or will be useful for IFMF in developing new futures.
This is semi-curated, and far from a complete list; not all entries share stories worth working towards. As it evolves, we hope that it may prove useful for considering and sharing your own envisioned futures:
Literature
M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 (Common Notions, 2022).
Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, ed., A People's Future of the United States (One World, 2019).
Hassan Blasim, ed., Iraq +100: Stories From a Century After the Invasion (Comma Press, 2016).
Basma Ghalayini, ed., Palestine +100: Stories From a Century After the Nakba (Comma Press, 2019).
Orsola Casagrande and Mustafa Gundogdu, ed., Kurdistan +100: Stories From a Future State (Comma Press, 2023).
Ahmed Naji, ed., Egypt + 100: Stories from a Century after Tahrir (Comma Press, 2023).
Fereshteh Ahmadi, Peter Adrian Behravesh, and Rebecca Zahabi, ed., Iran + 100: Stories from a Century after the Coup (Comma Press, 2025).
Xueting C. Ni, ed., China +100: Stories from a Century After the Outbreak (Commas Press, 2026).
Alexandra Millatmel, Mina Jawad, ed., Afghanistan + 100 (Comma Press, 2027).
Dr Chris Hassall, ed., Extinction Level: Stories from the Anthropocene (Commas Press, 2026).
adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, ed., Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements (AK Press, 2015).
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993).
Octavia Butler and Damian Duffy, Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Abrams ComicArts, 2020).
Grist, ed., Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Grist, ed., Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestries (New Press, 2023).
N.K. Jemisin, How Long Til Black Futures Month (Orbit, 2018).
Kyle Tran Myhre, Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough (Button Poetry, 2022).
Maritza Arrastia, Grito 2048 (Life in the Liberated Zone Books, 2026).
D.A. Baden, ed., No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet (Habitat Press, 2022).
Jordan S Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).
Sonia Sulaiman, Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (Roseway Publishing, 2024).
Adrienne Maree Brown, Grievers (AK Press, 2021).
Adrienne Maree Brown, Maroons (AK Press, 2023).
Adrienne Maree Brown, Ancestors (AK Press, 2025).
Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (Verso, 2019).
Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia (Dark Horse Books, 2016).
Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025).
Ruha Benjamin, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want  (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Ruha Benjamin, Captivating Technology:  (Duke University Press, 2019). 
Rob Hopkins, From What If to What Is (Chelsea Green Publishing UK, 2020).
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs The Climate (Simon & Schuster, 2015).
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026).
Extinction Rebellion, This is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (Penguin, 2019).
Radix Media, ed., Futures: A Science Fiction Series (Radix Media, 2019).
Ganzeer, The Solar Grid #1-9 (Radix Media, 2016-2026).
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Knopf, 2014).
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Elvia Wilk, Death by Landscape (Soft Skull, 2022).
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Picador, 2022).
Mariana Pestana, ed., ONOMATOPEE 174 Fiction Practice: Prototyping the Otherworldly (Onomatopee Projects, Porto Design Biennale 2019).
Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Belknap Press, 2010).
Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, ed., We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).
Frithjof Bergmann, New Work New Culture: Work We Want And A Culture That Strengthens Us (Zero Books, 2019).
Nnedi Okorafor, Binti: The Complete Trilogy  (DAW, 2020).
Simon Stålenhag, Labyrinth (Image Comics, 2021).
b. al-ism and Aram Kavoossi, ed., Mizna Vol 25.2: Futurities (Mizna, 2025)
Leila Abdelrazaq, ed., Mizna Vol 21.1: Comix: A New World Order (Mizna, 2021)
Sophie Goldstein, The Oven (Adhouse Books, 2015).
Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini, Low #1-26 (Image Comics, 2014-2021).
Sean Lewis, The Few (Image Comics, 2017).
Ray Nayler, The Mountain Under the Sea (MCD, 2022).
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (Orbit, 2021).
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (Harper & Row, 1980).
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015).
Chris Harman, A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium (Verso, 2017).
Jacques Lob, Snowpiercer  Vol. 1-3 (Titan Comics, 1982. Translated to English in 2014).
Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind #1-27 (Tokuma Shoten, 1982-1994).
Noam Chomsky, A Livable Future is Possible (Haymarket Books, 2024).
Don Hertzfeld, The End of the World (random house, 2013).
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Knopf, 2025).
H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind (The Strand Magazine, April 1904).
Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin, 2016)
Shelley Streeby, Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making Through Science Fiction and Activism (University of California Press, 2018).
Shelley Streeby, Science Fiction Ecologies: Worldmaking with Butler, LeGuin, and Merril (NYU Press, 2026).
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003).
Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood (McClelland & Stewart, 2009).
Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2013).
Jan Lee and Steve Willis, Fairhaven: A Novel of Climate Optimism (Habitat Press, 2024).
Kristin Ross, Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso, 2024).
Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe (The New Press, 2025).
Annalee Newitz, Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024).
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston (Banyan Tree Books, 1975).
Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis and the Next (Verso, 2020).
Susan Harding, Daniel Rosenberg, ed., Histories of the Future (Duke University Press, 2005).
Lizzie O'Shea, Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us about Digital Technology (Verso, 2019).
Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian (Haymarket Books, 2024).
Petra Perner and Horst Bischof, ed., Beta-Life: Short Stories from an A-Life Future (Commas Press, 2014).
 Henry Jenkins, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro and Sangita Shresthova, ed., Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change (NYU Press, 2020).
Alan Weisman, Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future (Dutton, 2025).
Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Haymarket Books, 2021).
Holly Jean Buck, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration (Verso, 2019).
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis (Knopf Publishing Group, 2020).
Kirsten Berg, ed., Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (The Unnamed Press, 2019).
Charlie Jane Anders, Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories (Tordotcom, 2021).
Philip Clayton, Kelli M. Archie, Jonah Sachs, and Evan Steiner, ed., The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis (Cascade Books, 2020).
Joshua Whitehead, Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Bedside Press, 2019).
Andrew Dana Hudson, Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (Fordham University Press, 2022).
Francesco Verso, ed., Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures (Flame Tree Collections, Beyond and Within Series, 2024).
Allen Stroud, ed., Creative Futures: Speculative Short Stories from a Unique Science and Technology Collaboration (Flame Tree Collections, Beyond and Within Series, 2025).
Tanja Rohini Bisgaard, 2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017).
Phoebe Wagner, ed., Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales (Android Press, 2023).
Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Ann Older, ed., We Will Rise Again : Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope (S&S/Saga Press, 2025).
Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak, Pirate Care : Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Pluto Press, 2025).
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, ed., What If We Get It Right? : Visions of Climate Futures (One World, 2025).
Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home (HarperCollins, 1985).
Kinsale Drake, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Darcie Little Badger, ed., Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms (Torrey House Press, 2025).
Geo Maher, A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete (Verso, 2021).
Stewart Brand, Maintenance: Of Everything (Stripe Press, 2026).
Sarena Ulibarri, ed., Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (World Weaver Press, 2018).
Sarena Ulibarri, ed., Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (World Weaver Press, 2020).
Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight, ed., Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom, 2022).
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2018).
Andrea J. Ritchie, Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (AK Press, 2023).
Walter Mosley, Futureland (Grand Central Publishing, 2001).
Film and Television
Danis Goulet, Night Raiders (2021, Canada/New Zealand, in English and Cree with English subtitles).
Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, In Vitro (2-channel film, 28’, 2019).
Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain (2016).
Larissa Sansour, Nation Estate, film, 9’, 2012.
Don Hertzfeld, World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeld, 2015).
Don Hertzfeld, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (Don Hertzfeld, 2017).
Don Hertzfeld, World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (Don Hertzfeld, 2020).
Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby, The Expanse (2015-2022, in English and Belter Creole, 6 seasons).
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Westworld (HBO Entertainment, 2016–2022, 4 seasons).
Patrick Somerville, Station Eleven (Paramount Television Studios, 2021–2022).
Spike Jonze, Her (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2013).
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You (Annapurna Distribution, 2018).
Bong Joon Ho, Snowpiercer (RADiUS-TWC, 2013).
Graeme Manson and Aubrey Nealon, Snowpiercer (TNT and AMC, 2020-2024, 4 seasons).
Neill Blomkamp, Elysium (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2013).
Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (Strike Entertainment and Hit and Run Productions, 2006).
Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Focus Features, 2004).
Terry Gilliam, Brazil (Universal Pictures, 1985).
Lizzie Borden, Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983).
Alex Rivera, Sleep Dealer (London Starlight Film Finance: Likely Story Production, 2008).
Dennis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2017).
Tarik Saleh, Metropia (Atmo, 2009).Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Topcraft, 1984).

Games
Marina Zurkow and Sarah Rothberg, Investing in Futures, (More&More Unlimited, 2017)
Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace, Daybreak (CMYK, 2023).
Ben Hammer, We All Take from the River (Self-published, 2025).
Andrew Fischer, Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt, Andrew Navaro, Adam Sadler, Brady Sadler, Earthborne Rangers (Earthborne Games, 2023).
Robert Kurvitz, Disco Elysium (ZA/UM, 2019).
Splash Damage, Brink (Bethesda, 2011).
EA DICE, Mirror's Edge (Electronic Arts, 2008).
Genki, Phantom Crash (Phantogram, 2002).
CD Projekt RED, Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED, 2022).
Kevin Gold, Choice of Robots (Choice of Games LLC, 2014).
Osmotic Studios, Orwell (Daedalic Entertainment, 2016).
Oscar Brittain, Desert Child (Akupara Games, 2018).
Fullbright, Tacoma (Fullbright and Serenity Forge, 2017).
Scavengers Studio, Season: A Letter to the Future (Scavengers Studio, 2023).
Geography of Robots, NORCO (Geography of Robots and Raw Fury, 2021).
Telltale Games and Deck Nine, The Expanse: A Telltale Series (Telltale Games, 2023).
Liam Hevey, ECOPUNK: 2044 (Dice Kapital, 2022).
Laurie Blake, Rob Ingle and Rhi Saunders, Why We Fight (Stop, Drop & Roll Games Studio, 2026).
David Blandy, ECO MOFOS!! (Copy/Paste Co-Op, 2024).
Watt, Cloud Empress (Worlds by Watt, 2023).

Other Media
Future Today Institute Newsletter, specifically between 2019-2022.
Walid Raad, The Atlas Group (1989-2004).
Andrewism, YouTube Channel.
The Skin Deep, YouTube Channel.
Arundhati Roy, Confronting Empire speech at the Third World Social Forum (Port Alegre, Brazil, January 27, 2003).
Ricardo Levins Morales, Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: a political ecology of change, Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio (July 15, 2010).
Ursula Le Guin, Ursula K Le Guin's speech at National Book Awards: 'Books aren't just commodities', The Guardian (November 20, 2014).
Chloë Bass, Art After Trump: Eschewing Empathy for Self-Care, Hyperallergic (December 20, 2016).
Noura Erakat, Designing the Future in Palestine, Boston Review (December 19, 2022).
Austin Walker, Ali Acampora, Janine Hawkins, Sylvi Clare, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt, Keith J Carberry, and Andrew Lee Swan, PARTIZAN, podcast season (Friends at the Table, 2019-2021).
Jess Remington and Naomi McDougal-Jones, The Light Ahead, podcast series (Beloved Economies and Avalon: Story, 2021-2022).
Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, How to Survive the End of the World, podcast series (2017-present).