SHORT STORY: A cultural historian travels around the world to her great-grandmother’s birthplace and discovers traces that transcend time.
**Long listed for the British Science Fiction Association Award**
ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED SEPARATELY (released Earth Day April 22nd 2025): The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology contains short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro and characters trying to find their place in a climate-impacted world. Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.
- The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo
- What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri
- Centipede Station by T. K. Rex
- A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui
- Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame
- The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex
- Coriander by Ana Sun
Coriander IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE SEPARATELY... but you can find the story in the full anthology below!
Ana and Sue also have a non-fiction article about solarpunk in Ecological Citizen:
How Solarpunk Can Help Rewild Our Lives
(Ecological Citizen Vol 8 No 2, Aug 2025, non-fiction)
Don’t forget to check out:
- FREE solarpunk zines: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/zines
- Bright Green Futures podcast: https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/podcast
