solarpunk

What Kind of Bat is This?

Authors: Sarena Ulibarri, Susan Kaye Quinn (editor)
Series: Bright Green Futures
Genre: solarpunk

SHORT STORY: A young volunteer joins the Climate Corps to fund college, but a strange discovery changes more than she expects.

This short story has been published separately from the Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology to give readers a chance to sample it.

ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED SEPARATELY (releases Earth Day April 22nd): 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

What Kind of Bat is This? IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE SEPARATELY... but you can find the story in the full anthology below!

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Slimy Things Did Crawl

Series: Halfway to Better, Book 1
Genres: hopepunk, solarpunk

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.

EBOOK IS FREE: Download Slimy Things Did Crawl free at the retailer buttons below (each retailer has an app that can be used to read on any device).

Centipede Station

Authors: T. K. Rex, Susan Kaye Quinn (editor)
Series: Bright Green Futures
Genre: solarpunk

SHORT STORY: Imagine a forest. In space. With giant centipedes everywhere. Oh and you’re stranded there. With your mom.

This short story has been published separately from the Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology to give readers a chance to sample it.

ANTHOLOGY PUBLISHED SEPARATELY (released Earth Day April 22nd): 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

Centipede Station IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE SEPARATELY... but you can find the story in the full anthology below!

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Get the Full Anthology

Tower Girls

Series: Halfway to Better, Book 2
Genres: hopepunk, solarpunk

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.

Download Tower Girls free at the retailer buttons below (each retailer has an app that can be used to read on any device).

A Merger in Corn Country

Authors: Danielle Arostegui, Susan Kaye Quinn (editor)
Series: Bright Green Futures
Genre: solarpunk

SHORT STORY: With climate stressing his crops more every year and a different sort of folks moving in next door, a farmer has to consider what change really brings.

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

A Merger in Corn Country IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE SEPARATELY... but you can find the story in the full anthology below!

More info →

Get the Full Anthology

Planting the Shell-Bones

Series: Halfway to Better, Book 3
Genres: hopepunk, solarpunk

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.

Download Planting the Shell-Bones free at the retailer buttons below (each retailer has an app that can be used to read on any device).