Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers - Softcover

Ulibarri, Sarena; Patt, Julia K.; Mok, D.K.; Rossman, Jennifer Lee; Cox, Stefani; Graves, Shel; Schofield, Holly; Jerreat, Jerri; Goh, Jaymee; Jugendstil, Commando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998702277 ISBN 13: 9780998702278

Publisher: World Weaver Press, 2018

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

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.

Review:

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

--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: World Weaver Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0998702277
• ISBN 13: 9780998702278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292