Cover Reveal: Solarpunk Creatures

​A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, negotiating the challenges of multispecies justice. This speculative fiction anthology introduces a whole new cast of more-than-human protagonists: organic and digital, alien and fantastic, tiny and boundlessly large.

Solarpunk Creatures will be available in ebook and paperback January 16, 2024!

Cover art and design by Paul Summerfield

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Christoph Rupprecht, Deborah Cleland, Melissa Ingaruca Moreno, Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri

Stories:
“Threadloom” by N. R. M. Roshak
“Sonora’s Journey” by Kai Holmwood
“The Colorful Crow Of Web-Of-Life Park” by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
“The Business Of Bees” by Andrew Knighton
“Night Fowls” by Ana Sun
“Water Cycle” by Lauren C. Teffeau
“Microbia” by Center For Militant Futurology
“Rabbits, Rivers, And Prickly Pears” by Justine Norton-Kertson
“Hunting For Rain” by Lyndsey Croal
“AI Dreams Of Real Sheep—More At 8” by Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio
“An Inconvenient Unicorn” by Geraldine Briony Hunt
“Quorum Sensing” by Calliope Papas
“Flyby” by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
“Quarropts Can’t Dance” by Rodrigo Culagovski
“Thank Geo” by BrightFlame
“Our Minds Share A City” by Catherine Yeates
“Hopdog” by Rimi B. Chatterjee
“Solar Murder” by A.E. Marling
“The Wetlands Versus The Mayor” by Jerri Jerreat
“Leaf Whispers, Ocean Song” by Tashan Mehta

Artwork:
“Kelp Gardens” and “Stormwater Streams” by Yen Shu Liao
“Orange Crested Grebe” by Pamina Stewart
“Solar Powered” by Badlungs Art
“Renaissance Pisces” by Irina Tall
“Tunaakola” by ZiitaMdot
“Moth City” and “Kombucha Atoll” by Yen Shu Liao