Halfway to Better (Short Story Collection)

by Susan Kaye Quinn

Overview

Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future where we're struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world.

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

If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
1 - Slimy Things Did Crawl
2 - Tower Girls
3 - Planting the Shell-Bones
4 - Tombs Without Bodies
5 - The Day We Stopped Burning
6 - I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881151317
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/01/2024
Series:	Halfway to Better , #7
Pages:	132
Sales rank:	757,594
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Susan Kaye Quinn is a PhD Environmental Engineer turned speculative fiction author and the host of Bright Green Futures, a podcast that lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world. Sue writes hopeful climate fiction, futuristic spec fic, cyberpunk, and steampunk romance. Her novels have been optioned for Virtual Reality and translated into German and French, while her short stories have been published by Grist, Little Blue Marble, Reckoning and more. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. She writes full-time, trying to build a better world by imagining it first.

Website: SusanKayeQuinn.com, Podcast/substack: BrightGreenFutures.wtf