Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

by Sarena Ulibarri, Julia K. Patt, D.K. Mok, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Stefani Cox

Overview

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155429999
Publisher:	World Weaver Press
Publication date:	06/05/2018
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	329,474
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Sarena Ulibarri is Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press, and she is also a fiction writer who has been published in Lightspeed, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Weirdbook, and elsewhere. Her solarpunk story "Riding in Place" appeared in the anthology Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures. She lives in a solar-powered adobe house in New Mexico, and can be found online at SarenaUlibarri.com and @SarenaUlibarri.

Julia K. Patt is a writer, teacher, and editor living in Maryland. Her science fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and Luna Station Quarterly, among other places. Follow her on twitter (@chidorme) or check out her website juliakpatt.com for more.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author with a degree in elementary education, a fondness for road trips, and a terrible habit of forgetting where she's left her cup of tea. Her short fiction has been published by Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, Nature: Futures, and elsewhere. Her time travel novella, The Continuum, was published by World Weaver Press in January 2018, with a sequel forthcoming. For more info, visit wendynikel.com.

Table of Contents

"Caught Root" by Julia K. Patt

"The Spider and the Stars" by D.K. Mok

"Riot of the Wind and Sun" by Jennifer Lee Rossman

"Fyrewall" by Stefani Cox

"Watch Out, Red Crusher!" by Shel Graves

"The Call of the Wold" by Holly Schofield

"Camping With City Boy" by Jerri Jerreat

"A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine" by Jaymee Goh

"Midsummer Night's Heist" by Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio

"Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees" by Wendy Nikel

"New Siberia" by Blake Jessop

"Grover: Case #C09 920, 'The Most Dangerous Blend'" by Edward Edmonds

"Amber Waves" by Sam S. Kepfield

"Grow, Give, Repeat" by Gregory Scheckler

"Cable Town Delivery" by M. Lopes da Silva

"Women of White Water" by Helen Kenwright

"Under the Northern Lights" by Charlotte M. Ray

Editorial Reviews

04/30/2018
The future, while not always perfect, still has its bright, shining moments, as revealed in this forward-thinking collection. The 17 stories tackle a variety of ethical, moral, philosophical, and technological issues with an eye toward imagining a sustainable world. The emphasis is on thoughtful, even radical solutions, such as in D.K. Mok’s delightful “The Spider and the Stars,” which traces the life and career of a young woman focused on applying entomology to space research, and Holly Schofield’s “The Call of the Wold,” about an introvert tasked with solving a community’s disagreements. In “The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees,” Wendy Nikel pictures a world in which artificial forests struggle to handle the functions of the real trees they’ve replaced; Blake Jessop’s “New Siberia” sees humans adapting to extraterrestrial conditions while learning from the past. This anthology is a welcome relief from dystopias and postapocalyptic wastelands, and a reassurance that the future need not be relentlessly bleak. (June)

Publishers Weekly

“This anthology is a welcome relief from dystopias and postapocalyptic wastelands, and a reassurance that the future need not be relentlessly bleak.”

—Publishers Weekly

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