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From Utopias to Thrutopias - Manda Scott on Healing the World Through Stories
Episode 9926th September 2025 • Dangerous Wisdom • nikos patedakis
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Manda Scott’s novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a Thrutopian Political Thriller aimed to craft a path through from exactly where we are to a flourishing future that we’d be proud to leave behind to the generations that come after us and for those who will inherit the planet after we die.

The novel helps us explore the question: How do you help the people you love create a future you’re proud to leave behind?

Manda is a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futures with a radical compassion, comes the story of a family at the heart of a political crisis and the ensuing uprising of a disenfranchised generation. A family that harnesses the skills and stories needed for real change, if they can choose the right path, before it is too late.

Manda Scott is an award-winning novelist and host of the acclaimed Accidental Gods podcast. Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, her previous novels have been short-listed for the Orange Prize, the Edgar, Wilbur Smith and Saltire Awards and won the McIllvanney Prize.

Her latest novel ANY HUMAN POWER is a Mytho-Political thriller which lays out a Thrutopian road map to a Dlourishing future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. With degrees in veterinary medicine and a Masters in Regenerative Economics, Manda’s life is oriented towards creating radical new narratives that will pave the way to the total systemic change our culture – and our world – needs.

Any Human Power is available for sale on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Any-Human-Power-Manda-Scott/dp/1914613562

Readers can connect with Manda Scott on Facebook, Bluesky, Goodreads, Instagram,

and LinkedIn.

To learn more, visit https://mandascott.co.uk/ and https://accidentalgods.life

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