hopepunk

When You Had Power is the first of four tightly-connected novels in a solarpunk series. It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed. Because we’re in this together, now more than ever before.

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SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible.

Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

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You Knew the Price is the second of four tightly-connected novels in a solarpunk series. It’s about our future, how society lives on invisible things, like electricity and trust, that are far too easy to break… and how our most difficult moments are often when we discover the only path forward is healing not just ourselves but the world.

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Climate Fiction for a Better Future

Otherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these twelve innovative stories--winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest organized by Grist--offer a glimpse of a future built on sustainability, inclusivity, and justice. A beekeeper finds purpose and new love after collaborating on a bee-based warning system for floods. An Indian family preserves its traditions through food, dance, and the latest communication fads. After an oceanic rapture, a lone survivor adapts to living in a tree on a small island with a vulture he befriends. Flickers of hope, even joy, illuminate these alternate realities.

Curated by Grist, the leading media organization dedicated to foregrounding stories of climate change, Metamorphosis is a visionary and speculative collection. Immersive, thought-provoking, and often surprising, these stories serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help us envision a tomorrow in which we flourish and thrive.

Contains: Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn

Check out: the livestreamed book launch author panel at the Center for Fiction in NYC (authors Susan Kaye Quinn, Jamie Liu, Louis Evans)

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Of Kindness and Kilowatts is the third of four tightly-connected novels in a solarpunk series. It’s about our future, how the world is always more complicated than it seems, and how just when it seems like things couldn’t possibly get worse, they invariably do… and that’s when we discover kindness and quantum entanglement are what hold everything together.

 

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SHORT STORY COLLECTION (Solarpunk Anthology)

The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of 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.

Bright Green Futures: 2024 contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem.

• 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

THE ANTHOLOGY IS FREE FOR AWARDS SEASON: please download, read, and consider nominating or voting for each individual story in the SHORT FICTION category! 

• BSFA: Coriander has been long-listed for the British Science Fiction Association Award — BASF voting ends 2.19!
• HUGO: All stories are eligible and nominations are now open!
• NEBULA: All stories are eligible — nominations by SFWA members ends 2.28!

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As hard times and broken bots threaten a collective tea farm, the women keeping it going must decide whether to add another to their ranks.

Seven Sisters took 3rd place in Grist's Imagine 2100 contest and is one of their Best Audio picks. It was subsequently published as part of the Metamorphosis anthology, selected to be in the 2022 Best of Utopian Fiction collection, translated into German, and published in the bilingual Spanish/English magazine Beyond Dimensions.

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Yet You Cry When It Hurts is the fourth of four tightly-connected solarpunk novels in a near-future climate-fiction series. It’s about our future, how the forces of greed are ever-present, how the fight for a just world never ends, and how it’s not strongmen who will save us but the bright cords of connection that hold the world together.

 

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Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future world where we’re struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world.

The Halfway to Better collection contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem, Rewilding Indiana, and its accompanying sky shanty.

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SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible.

Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

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SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita’s a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she’s certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on…

Tower Girls is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

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SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end.

Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

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