Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (ebook)
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Anthology edited by Sarena Ulibarri
Series: Glass & Gardens
Science Fiction / Short Story Anthology
Release Date: June 5, 2018
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ISBN-13: 978-0998702278
Anthology: Approx. 85,000 words / 290 pages
Also available as a trade paperback
DescriptionSolarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not boring 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.
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 |
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--Publishers Weekly "Each of these stories is a window into a world where issues like climate change and food shortages are approached with a joyful creativity. The variety in character, narrative approach, and setting offers something to appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially those who look to anthologies to find new authors to follow." --Booklist "I came away from this anthology with two points: clean energy is a far healthier alternative to fossil fuels, and it is far too easy for humans to destroy a planet. Both are important for their own reasons. 'Glass and Gardens' edited by Sarena Ulibarri piqued my curiosity on global warming and climate change, inciting me into some research of my own. That’s the mark of a good book if I’ve ever seen one." --Reader Views "If you enjoy solarpunk or are interested in exploring it as a genre then this is an excellent place to start! I highly recommend this and hope more collections will be published in the future!" --BrenhinesBooks “This anthology gives you just enough story, science, and hope…I’ve been needing a book like this in my life.” --Utopia State of Mind "[T]he seventeen stories in this anthology are speculative in the very best sense of the word: They speculate on how our future could be, rather than how it must be, and provide an optimistic view which somehow manages to escape being escapism." --SFF Reviews "I’d heartily recommend Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summer to anyone who is in the mood for an optimistic vision of what the future might be like for humans and all of the other creatures who live on Earth." --Long and Short Reviews "Humans have spent generations destroying the planet. These seventeen stories explore the various ways to work with the world to improve it. From technological solutions to simple planning, the characters in these stories find a way to work with the world. " --SFRevu "If you like your science fiction and fantasy with a hopeful outlook and a diverse cast of characters, you’re likely to find many of the stories in Glass and Gardens to your liking!" --Mad Scientist Journal "Glass and Gardens tends toward optimism; its stories imagine technologies that allow communities to cope with the realities of a warmer planet in fantastic ways…These are not stories in which everyone’s problems have been solved, and their narrative conclusions are not always tidy, but they have an unabashed positivity." --Longreads "[T]his anthology successfully probes science fiction stories that might be solarpunk in order to find the core of solarpunk. Even with stories that weren't for me, I still appreciated the larger framework of questions being posed to the reader." --Consuming Cyberpunk |