What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and
bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer in a work of
speculative fiction that recalls William Morris and William Gibson The year: 2035. At a funeral
for Iris a revolutionary leftist feminist Yango is approached by Costa Iris s closest
comrade who urges him to carry out Iris s last wish: plough into her secret diaries to tell
their story. But Costa insists leave out anything that might help Big Tech replicate my
technologies! That night Yango delves into Iris s diaries. In them he discovers a chronicle of
how Costa s revolutionary technologies had unveiled an actually existing fully democratized
postcapitalist society. Suddenly he understands Costa s obsession with the hackers trying to
steal his secrets. So begins Yanis Varoufakis s extraordinary novelistic thought-experiment
where the world-famous economist offers an invigorating and deeply moving vision of an
alternative reality. Another Now tells the story of Costa a brilliant but deeply disillusioned
computer engineer who creates a revolutionary technology that will allow the user a glimpse of
a life beyond their dreams but will not enslave them. But an accident during one of its trial
runs unveils a cosmic wormhole where Costa meets his DNA double who is living in a 2025 very
different than the one Costa is living in. In this parallel 2025 a global hi-tech uprising
begun in the wake of the collapse of 2008 has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work
money land digital networks and politics have been truly democratized. Banks have been
eliminated as well as predatory data-mining digital monopolies the gig economy is no more
and the young are free to experiment with different careers and to study non-lucrative topics
from Sumerian pottery to astrophysics. Intoxicated Costa travels to England to tell Iris his
old comrade and her neighbor Eva a recovering banker turned neoliberal economics professor
of the parallel universe he has discovered. Costa eventually leads them back to his workshop in
America where Iris and Eva meet their own doubles and confront hard truths about themselves
and the daunting political challenge that the Other Now presents. But as their obsession with
the Other Now deepens time begins to run out as the wormhole begins to deteriorate and
hackers begin to unleash new attacks on Costa s technology. The trio have to make a choice:
which 2025 do they want to live in? Varoufakis has been claiming for a while that we already
live in postcapitalist times. That since the 2008 crisis capitalism has been morphing into
technofeudalism. Another Now a riveting work of speculative fiction shows that there is a
realistic democratic alternative to the technofeudalpostcapitalist dystopia taking shape all
around us. It also confronts us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to
bring it about?
