Ursula K. Le Guin, particularly her novels
The Word for World Is Forest
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Always Coming Home
and short stories
Vaster Than Empire and More Slow
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Anarchist Sci Fi?
Ursula K LeGuin, definitely. And I've never read any of his stuff, but one of my friends is pretty into Michael Moorcock - apparently one of his books has an alternate-universe scenario about what happens a couple decades after the Makhnovists defeat the Bolsheviks and liberate half of Europe.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Soviet dissident sci-fi that was ripped off by Orwell.
Ken Macleod's books often feature anarchist heroes, the best for that is the Engines of Light trilogy especially the second one which describes anarchist attempts to turn a revolution on another planet anarchist.
His Fall Revolution Quadrology focuses on trots in space, and is pretty good as well, and the standalone novels Learning the World, and Newton's Wake both describe libertarian cornocopian societies...
His mate Charlie Stross hints at revolutionary and libertarian politics a lot, especially in the excellent Accelerando, and his Rachel Mansour novels (two so far I think).
I second MacLeod to a degree. In terms of politics they're ok, though I am not a big fan of his writing style. Liked Learning the World a lot, but was very disappointed with the Execution Channel.
Stross is amazing - Accelerando is one of the better sci-fi books I've read. Halting State is a very good novel as well, though not necessarily for its politics.
Free on the internet:
"THE DAY BEFORE THE REVOLUTION" by Ursula Le Guin In memoriam Paul Goodman, 1911-1972
Reprinted from Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Wind's Twelve Quarters" collection of short stories
And Try also mine:
Glimpses of year 2100 - 50 years after the revolution
http: //ilan.shalif.com/anarchy/glimpses/glimpses.html
I suppose you;d have to stick wiliiam morriss's news from nowhere in there, and the alien society in K-pax is best described as anarchist. A quick google reveals this aswell http://web.ukonline.co.uk/benjaminbeck/anarchysf/a.htm
Also i suppose you can probably add the vast swathes of utopian socialist science fiction, particularly that coming out of russia because it lacked the oppenheimerish overtones. A lot of that is all out of print though and didn;t pass the censor in the USSR, a friend of mines dad has a penchant for that sort of genre and was waxing lyrical about all the books he stole from the library before they got banned, interesting stuff broadly speaking.
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Ian M. Banks culture novels are pretty anarchist/communist, also his novel the Algebraist features an alien culture that is quite anarchist.
They do get more pessimistic tho, if i remember right Excession reveals that the supercomputers are in charge. Secret (robo-bastard) dictatorship.
Anyone know any decent anarchist sci fi books? I don't know if steampunk would come under that, I'm not to familiar with that sort of stuff anyway.
On TV shows you could say there's an anarchist current running through a lot of Joss Whedon's stuff, particularly Firefly, what do you think?