If you want to "be on the road tomorrow, living like it was the first days of a better nation -- or a weirder one...read Bakunin and Illich and Luxemburg, old dead anarchists. Read Homage to Catalonia and understand Orwell -- the seeds of Nineteen Eighty-Four [are] in the betrayals and the manipulation." "I admit I don't have anything to prove it. Everything I know I learned second-hand from someone scared out of his skin. This is one of those things where it's worth behaving as though it was true, even if it never comes to pass."

Below, you will find some of the books that Doctorow included as "Walkaway Classics", books that Doctorow cites as inspirations for Walkaway, and books that I found to have similarities with the Walkaway philosophy and this particular brand of futurism.