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Solarpunk: Short Stories from Many Futures is out now! This diverse anthology of climate resilience and hope includes my short story “The Spider and the Stars”, as well as stories from @sarenaulibarri, @kyliu99, Renan Bernardo, and Jennifer L. Rossman.
📚 #Bookstodon #Solarpunk #SciFi #CliFi #ShortStories #ClimateChange
https://www.amazon.com/Solarpunk-Stories-Futures-Beyond-Within/dp/1804179353
📖 #Clifi #buchstodon @buchstodon
#NeilStephenson #TerminationShock Zugegeben, geschwätzig ist der Erzähler schon: vor allem, wenn er neue Figuren einführt und dies und das und das und dies dabei besprechen muss. Trotzdem bleibe ich dran und hoffe auf eine gewisse Verdichtung der Erzählstruktur.
ICYMI check out this review of The Jaguar Mask by Frasier Armitage for FanFiAddict. "Ultimately, it’s a story of hope, acceptance, identity, and belonging.”
Read the full review here: https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-jaguar-mask-by-michael-j-de-luca/
#books #bookstodon #fantasy #literaryfantasy #surrealism #magicalrealism #shapeshifter #ecofiction #climatefiction #clifi
Bleu believes he can find the cure and save his little sister.
Atsushi believes first dates shouldn’t involve jail breaks.
Rana believes she can find enlightenment.
Kahali believes love overcomes violence.
Savas believes his destiny is to save humanity.
Some beliefs die hard.
Word on the Street is fast approaching! On Saturday pop by to meet author and publisher Michael J. Deluca (THE JAGUAR MASK, Reckoning Magazine). If you're writing ecofiction, this is a great opportunity to chat with two publishers at once and grab DeLuca's debut fantasy novel!
#ecofiction #climatefiction #clifi #solarpunk #fantasybooks #literaryfiction #magicalrealism #toronto #torontoevents #ontarioevents #bookevents #books #bookstodon
Petrofuture of the United States…66m sea level rise on a 1956 gas station road map.
Original Shell Oil basemap found at David Rumsey Maps.
More at
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com
#vintagemaps #petrofuture #sealevelrise #climatechange #maps #cartography #clifi #conspiracyofcartographers
I just realized: many people ask for #solarpunk book recommendations here in the fediverse. Now you all can include my debut, The Working! Also, I need to update the Great Reads section of my website to include recent books I recommend. A number of them are #CliFi , #solarpunk , or BIPOC-futurist. For now you can see what I already include: https://brightflame.com/books-i-recommend/
Allow me to rave for a moment about "The Book of Koli" to y'all. Also, too, "The Trials of Koli" and "The Fall of Koli," which together comprise the Rampart Trilogy by M. R. Carey.
What's so great about these books? Convincing and fascinating world-building, firstly. Koli lives in a world which at first seems like a medieval English village. But the village has "Ramparts," people who hold and control tech from centuries ago. A flamethrower, a database, a gun that never misses its target, and a glove that emits a force field. Plus, the forests outside their village are full of killer trees. Villagers must wait for cloudy days to go out hunting, otherwise the bloodthirsty trees will entangle, crush, and kill them by various means.
The second great thing about the story is the characters. Koli is at first a foolish, sometimes selfish, lovestruck boy whose main redeeming …
Allow me to rave for a moment about "The Book of Koli" to y'all. Also, too, "The Trials of Koli" and "The Fall of Koli," which together comprise the Rampart Trilogy by M. R. Carey.
What's so great about these books? Convincing and fascinating world-building, firstly. Koli lives in a world which at first seems like a medieval English village. But the village has "Ramparts," people who hold and control tech from centuries ago. A flamethrower, a database, a gun that never misses its target, and a glove that emits a force field. Plus, the forests outside their village are full of killer trees. Villagers must wait for cloudy days to go out hunting, otherwise the bloodthirsty trees will entangle, crush, and kill them by various means.
The second great thing about the story is the characters. Koli is at first a foolish, sometimes selfish, lovestruck boy whose main redeeming feature is that he really hates hurting other people and animals. Some reviewers complain about his weepiness, and he does cry a lot, but those folks are missing the point of Koli. He's not a typical adventuring hero, he's a boy becoming a man who ultimately succeeds (when he does succeed) in his quests because of his soft-hearted nature. He's also pretty good at woodworking and running fast, but that's about it. He's no good with weapons and he's not particularly clever. Fortunately, he's able to connect with people who are good with weapons (Cup, a girl who he inadvertently rescues from the clutches of a religious cult leader) and who are extremely clever (Ursala, an older, probably autistic doctor who travels the land with a mission to restore enough genetic diversity to the people so that humanity doesn't die out entirely).
There's one more important main character, but to describe her in any detail would spoil some important elements of the first book, so I'll just leave it there.
I am approaching 50 years old and am completely over coming-of-age, YA type books. And yet this series never gave me the bored feeling that I sometimes get from reading about the struggles of teenagers to find themselves. Plus, there is positive trans representation (especially in books 2 and 3) and Koli is clearly described as being brown-skinned. 10/10, recommend for anyone. #SFF #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #CliFi #ClimateFiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
(Carey is also the author of The Girl With All the Gifts and its sequel The Boy on the Bridge, both are very good. The first of those got turned into a decent movie.)
NEW EPISODE!
In Ep13, we talk about how to exercise our imaginations to envision better futures, whether we’re writers or not, & how that’s a vital tool in our climate solutions toolkit.
BrightGreenFutures.wtf
We're lifting up #solarpunk and #hopeful #ClimateFiction stories to build a better world.
#shortstories #climatesolutions #hopepunk #hopefulscifi
#clifi #climatefiction #abetterfuture
#solarpunk #climatechange #bookrecs #books
#sciencefiction #SF #scifi #speculativefiction
Cover reveal! :: happy dance ::
Official launch date is July 17th.
A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we need.
https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/working/
#solarpunk #CliFi #bookstagram #books #booktodon #booktok #WritingCommunity #Witch
Today's review!
Scott reviews "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson:
"This book should be required reading for… well, everyone, but especially for anyone in a position to implement changes that might help stave off the worst impacts of climate change. An important book, and one I will continue to think about long after I finished the last word. Highly recommended."
https://www.limfic.com/2024/06/26/review-the-ministry-for-the-future-kim-stanley-robinson/
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #CliFi #ClimateFiction #Review #BookReview
https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/review-the-ministry-for-the-future-kim-stanley-robinson/
Once There Were Humans: Surrealism & Post-Anthropocentrism in Contemporary Fiction
18 June, free online
Climate fiction has seen a sharp increase on bookshelves worldwide, balancing topics of #sciencefiction and anthropogenic utopian & dystopian visions. In this talk, Leonie Jungen will discuss visions of the post- #Anthropocene, gender violence, & climate activism in contemporary fiction
NEW EPISODE! All about Grist's hopeful climate fiction contest from editor Tory Stephens —submit your story now! (Deadline June 24th)
https://grist.org/about-imagine-2200-climate-fiction/
Bright Green Futures — a podcast about stories to build a better world
BrightGreenFutures.wtf
We're lifting up #solarpunk and #hopeful #ClimateFiction stories to build a better world.
#hopepunk #hopefulscifi
#clifi #climatefiction
#solarpunk #climatechange #climateaction
#sciencefiction #SF #scifi #speculativefiction
Reminder that the Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction contest is still accepting submissions until June 24th! Polish up your story and send it in! 🌞🌱🌻
2,500-5,000 words
No entry fee
Chance to win an Environmental Writing Fellowship and Residency (plus $$ and publication, of course)
#solarpunk #hopepunk #lunarpunk #tidalpunk #ClimateFiction #EcoFiction #CliFi #EnvironmentalStorytelling #ClimateHope #ClimateAction #WritersLife #CallForSubmissions
https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-contest-submissions/
"You are my Sunshine" is a song that hums with all the notes of clifi, from the horrifying to the hopeful. Its titular novelette is a bone-chilling plunge into the terrifying depths of our climate reality. Octavia Cade @octaviacade weaves the same spell of sobering disquiet found in her novella, THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF, to this collection of sunflowers, starfish & submarine paths to reworlding. A magnificent read. @StelliformPress
#clifi #climatefiction #solarpunk #bookreview #sff
