Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

by Phoebe Wagner (Editor), Brontë Christopher Wieland (Editor), Daniel José Older (Contribution by)

Overview

Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short fiction, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk envisions a future of green, sustainable energy used by societies that value inclusiveness, cooperation, and personal freedom.

Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland, Sunvault focuses on the stories of those inhabiting the crucial moments when great change can be made by people with the right tools; stories of people living during tipping points, and the spaces before and after them; and stories of those who fight to effect change and seek solutions to ecological disruption.

Contributors include Elgin Award nominee Kristine Ong Muslim, New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older, James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Nisi Shawl, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar, and Lambda Literary Awards finalist A.C. Wise, as well as Jess Barber, Santiago Belluco, Lisa M. Bradley, Chloe N. Clark, Brandon Crilly, Yilun Fan and translator S. Qiouyi Lu, Jaymee Goh, José M. Jimenez, Maura Lydon, Camille Meyers, Lev Mirov, joel nathanael, Clara Ng, Sara Norja, Brandon O'Brien, Jack Pevyhouse, Bethany Powell, C. Samuel Rees, Iona Sharma, Karyn L. Stecyk, Bogi Takács, Aleksei Valentín, T.X. Watson, Nick Wood, and Tyler Young.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937794750
Publisher:	Upper Rubber Boot Books
Publication date:	06/15/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	254
Sales rank:	204,984
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Phoebe Wagner grew up in Pennsylvania, the third generation to live in the Susquehanna River Valley. She spent her days among the endless hills pretending to be an elf, and, eventually, earned a B.A. in English: Creative Writing from Lycoming College, where she also met her husband. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter: @pheebs_w.

Brontë Christopher Wieland is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University where he thinks about how language, culture, and storytelling shape the world around us. In 2014, he earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mathematics and Linguistics. His fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online and Hypertext Magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @BeezyAl.

Daniel José Older is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shadowshaper Cypher, including Shadowhouse Fall and Shadowshaper (Scholastic, 2015), a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, which won the International Latino Book Award and was named one of Esquire's 80 Books Every Person Should Read, and writes the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series from Penguin's Roc Books.

Table of Contents

• Fiction and poetry:
  
  • Foreword: Andrew Dincher “On the Origins of Solarpunk”
  • Jess Barber, “You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea”
  • Santiago Belluco, “The Death of Pax”
  • Lisa M. Bradley & José M. Jimenez, “Strandbeest Dreams”
  • Chloe N. Clark, “Fairy Tales & Other Species of Life” and “Please”
  • Brandon Crilly, “Pop and the CFT”
  • Yilun Fan, trans. S. Qiouyi Lu, “Speechless Love”
  • Jaymee Goh, “The Reset”
  • Maura Lydon, “The Herbalist”
  • Camille Meyers, “Solar Child”
  • Lev Mirov, “The Desert, Blooming”
  • Kristine Ong Muslim, “Boltzmann Brain”
  • joel nathanael, “light sail star bound”
  • Sara Norja, “Sunharvest Triptych”
  • Brandon O’Brien, “The Sailor-Boys”
  • Daniel José Older, “Dust”
  • Jack Pevyhouse, “Solar Powered Giraffes”
  • Bethany Powell, “recursive”
  • C. Samuel Rees, “Teratology”
  • Iona Sharma, “Eight Cities”
  • Nisi Shawl, “The Colors of Money”
  • Karyn L. Stecyk, “The Trees Between”
  • Bogi Takács, “Synthesis: This Shining Confluence”
  • Lavie Tidhar, “The Road to the Sea”
  • Aleksei Valentín, “The Seven Species”
  • T.X. Watson “The Boston Hearth Project”
  • A.C. Wise, “A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World”
  • Nick Wood, “Thirstlands”
  • Tyler Young, “Last Chance”
  
  
  
  
• Artwork:
  
  • Likhain (cover)
  • Christine Moleski, “Solar Flare”
  • Clara Ng, “Hand Over the Future”
  • Sireesha Reddy, “Pan, Legs Resting”
  • Carlin Reynolds, “Radio Silence”
  • Bogi Takács, “Facing the Sun”
  • Leigh Wallace, “Through the Glass”
  
  
  
  

Editorial Reviews

06/19/2017
Every story and poem in this optimistic illustrated anthology of “solarpunk and eco-speculation” portrays a future in which environmental disaster is encroaching on or encompassing our world, but a glimmer of hope remains. A job applicant in T.X. Watson’s “The Boston Hearth Project” explains how a so-called terrorist can be an otherwise helpless group’s salvation. In Tyler Young’s “Last Chance,” people go to extremes to teach children how to keep from ruining their world, even when one of those children is dying. The title character of Camille Meyers’s “Solar Child” is four-year-old Ella, who partially sustains herself through photosynthesis; she is threatened by religious zealots who oppose the genetic modification that gave her this ability. In A.C. Wise’s lyrical “A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World,” an old man stays behind when the generation ships leave Earth; he feels that no one should die alone, including the planet. Some pieces are bizarre. Many are haunting and will linger in the reader’s memory. Readers who’ve had their fill of dystopian fiction will want to explore these more positive futures. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

Every story and poem in this optimistic illustrated anthology of "solarpunk and eco-speculation" portrays a future in which environmental disaster is encroaching on or encompassing our world, but a glimmer of hope remains. . . . Some pieces are bizarre. Many are haunting and will linger in the reader's memory. Readers who've had their fill of dystopian fiction will want to explore these more positive futures.
--Publishers Weekly

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