Solarpunk Creatures
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Science Fiction / Short Story Anthology
Release Date: January 16, 2024
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1734054576
Anthology: Approx. 93,000 words / 320 pages
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Science Fiction / Short Story Anthology
Release Date: January 16, 2024
Trade Paperback
ISBN-13: 978-1734054576
Anthology: Approx. 93,000 words / 320 pages
Also available as an ebook
Find it Online:
Amazon
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Wholesale: Ingram or direct: World Weaver Press.
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DescriptionA 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. Solarpunk Creatures introduces a whole new cast of more-than-human protagonists: organic and digital, alien and fantastic, tiny and boundlessly large.
Table of ContentsStories:
“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 Cover Art by Paul Summerfield Excerpts
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Praise"Each story pushes the boundaries of what the future, and the characters within it, might look like. With a colorful variety of tales of hope, community, and rebuilding, this will appeal to long-time solarpunk fans and newer readers alike."
--Publishers Weekly "A dazzling array of polyphonic voices building lives new, strange and infinitely wonderful. I strongly recommend inviting them all into your brain." —Samit Basu, author of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport "This anthology brings out delectable futuristic stories as seen by a new subaltern - robots, animals, artificial intelligence, birds, trees and other creatures who have been rendered voiceless by humans." —Shweta Taneja, award-winning author "This is a necessary collection for a time in the planet’s history when shifts in collective imagination are the need of the hour. In these times of climate doom, growing inequity and injustice, books like Solarpunk Creatures help us think and imagine differently, beyond our insular selves, together and in community with others, human and non-human, visible, invisible or fathomless." --Sayantani Sengupta, Scroll.in These stories have all my love. Every one was fun, fantastical, and solarpunk (the new steampunk I think). I especially loved the Threadloom, so imaginative and entertaining. This is for anyone that needs some whimsy and inventive fantasy. —MC, NetGalley Reviewer Dive into a dazzling world of sustainable futures with this Solarpunk anthology! A breath of fresh air in speculative fiction, it celebrates the diversity of voices and delivers a captivating array of short stories. Each tale unfolds unique and intriguing premises, painting a vivid mosaic of possibilities where technology and nature coalesce. A must-read for those seeking a hopeful glimpse into tomorrow. —NetGalley Reviewer “It's difficult to build whole futures in a few thousand words; the stories in this collection offer glimpses and possibilities, rather than answers and entire histories. Pieces are by turns hopeful, realistic, thoughtful, aspirational, cautionary; in combination, they are greater than the sum of their parts, and very relatably human for all their exploration of biological and technical beings. A relatively quick, enjoyable, and optimistic read.” --LilianZenzi, LibraryThing Reviewer |