sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
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Happy Book Birthday to SOLARPUNK CREATURES! This anthology showcases more-than-human voices in better futures, from international authors and artists.

Featuring stories by @rimibchatterjee
@abekonge
@ana
@culagovski
@AEMarling
@BrightFlame
@gibbondemon
@nroshak

Special thanks to @focx for making this anthology happen!

https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/out-now-solarpunk-creatures

BrightFlame, to books

Fedi friends, I'm thrilled to share my news with you! My novel will launch in 2024. Official announcement soon.

@fedpagan

sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
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Another sneak peek from the SOLARPUNK CREATURES anthology! Author Jerri Jerreat shares an excerpt from “The Wetlands vs The Mayor”.

https://youtu.be/2XunVuVVRGM?si=S1rd4Yed4-FqIZ7l

susankayequinn, to climate
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susankayequinn, to solarpunk
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar

This... this is what I want for 2024.

*thank you Danielle who submitted this drabble to @grist

sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
@sarenaulibarri@wandering.shop avatar

SOLARPUNK CREATURES comes out next week! Here’s a sneak peak of author @gibbondemon reading an excerpt from his story “The Business of Bees”

https://youtu.be/l3c0Ji_ezU8?si=lU3dZLXC_M-taXKl

susankayequinn, to solarpunk
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar

Just got off the phone with an artist who's going to work with me for this collection of short stories I want to publish and I AM PUMPED. This is going to be so cool. And the way we're doing it is super creative: I love working with folks who get my vibe.

StelliformPress, to random

The first our 2024 books is making its way down the pipe - @MichaelJDeLuca's THE JAGUAR MASK! If you're a reviewer looking for surrealist literary fantasy critiquing neo-colonial resource extraction in the global south, our reviewer list is open! https://forms.gle/JAPqG7L89t5b9cJo6

susankayequinn, to climate
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar

"I don't tell stories about how the climate is changing; I tell stories about how we have to change. I don't (only) talk about the damage we're doing to the biosphere; I build stories around fixing it. We don't just have the ability to destroy the planet (and ourselves); we have the chance to save the world." — me, rehearsing in my head what I'll say to the students writing

varelse, to sciencefiction Polish
@varelse@pol.social avatar

Solarpunk jakiego potrzebujemy.

Cholernie aktualna książka. Czego tu nie ma? Skutki zmian klimatu, od zatopionych miast przez pożary wymuszające lockdowny, wewnętrznych migrantów aż po epidemie przy których Covid to zwykła grypa. Synergie między działaniami oddolnymi i odgórnymi. Nowy Zielony Ład, postwzrost i MMT. Zdecentralizowane social media i inne skutki porządnej polityki antymonopolowej. Nadzieja, która czasem jest przywilejem. Systemowy rasizm policji. Popkultura jako propaganda. Techbrosi, którzy poszli w seasteading, ale próbują odzyskać władzę w USA za pomocą brudnych prawnych zagrywek, dezinformacji i ̶w̶y̶b̶o̶r̶c̶ó̶w̶ ̶K̶o̶n̶f̶e̶d̶e̶r̶a̶c̶j̶i̶ szurów z „MAGA Clubów”.

Ale przede wszystkim, to powieść na dwa tematy. Pierwszy to polaryzacja polityczna, podziały przechodzące nierzadko między najbliższymi osobami. Do tego poziomu, że dziadek, który wziął cię pod opiekę, kiedy epidemia zabiła twoich rodziców, jednocześnie chciałby wymordować „takich jak ty”. I nie jest to bynajmniej powieść, w której wystarczy dialog a la Szymon Hołownia, przyznanie że wszyscy się czasem mylimy i spotkanie się pośrodku. Jeśli jedna strona pali krzyże jak Ku Klux Klan, składuje broń, gotując się na zbrojne przejęcie władzy, i dosłownie grozi śmiercią własnej rodzinie, nie ma mowy o żadnej „dyskusji”.

Po drugie, to powieść o buncie, który wyraża się w budowaniu. Dosłownym. A przy tym jest w tym tyle samo, a może i więcej nieposłuszeństwa, co w akcjach XRu czy innych ruchów ekologicznych. To jest doskonała realizacja postulatu Adama Flynna z „Solarpunk: notatki do manifestu”: „Końcówka -punk w Solarpunku nie znalazła się tam tylko dlatego, że dobrze brzmi. Oznacza ona sprzeciw, jednak sprzeciw wyrażony budowaniem podwalin pod nowe możliwości.”

Zdecydowanie chciałbym napisać o “The Lost Cause” dłuższego posta na bloga, ale nie gwarantuję że nastąpi to szybko.

@ksiazki
@pluralistic

susankayequinn, to climate
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sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
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Want an early review copy of SOLARPUNK CREATURES? It's still available on NetGalley for the next couple of weeks!

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/306102

alxd, to solarpunk
@alxd@writing.exchange avatar

In the last episode of , the we finally feature one of the hard questions of :

How do you convince other people to do something they don't want to, when time is of the essence and you don't want to use force or hierarchies?

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/the-epidemiologists

The Epidemiologists might be one of the harder prompts, as it asks for a lot of societal sensitivity and imagination.

alxd, to books
@alxd@writing.exchange avatar

Refining my criticism of , I think I arrived at the core of what bothers me:

It's relatively easy to say whether science fiction is hard or soft when it comes to physical technology, but much harder when it comes to social ones.

The Ministry uses blockchain and a few other buzzword techs the same way other books use nanorobots: they magically solve complex problems. Here: social ones.

Few readers can spot that outright.

alxd,
@alxd@writing.exchange avatar

For me one of the most important functions of and in general is exactly this:

Imagining new shapes of societies, of economies, of cultures in a sustainable future, proposing blueprints for a better tomorrow.

The Ministry fails to do that, while appearing to be a "hard sci-fi" making a lot of people believe that we can arrive at a better future without a visible cultural change.

That's my main criticism I wasn't able to clearly vocalise before.

StelliformPress, to sciencefiction

It's the first picture of the new Arboreality in the wild! The new version has a silky matte cover, gold foil title text, and aged and distressed Ursula K Le Guin Prize and Philip K Dick awards medallions + more!

This book would make a beautiful gift. https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/arboreality-by-rebecca-campbell/

tinderness, to random German

📖 verkürzt in den Kampf um natürlichen Ressourcen auf ein paar knappe, naive Sätze.

"Es brauchte nur ein bisschen Mord und Totschlag und eine Menge Vandalismus, bis die Firmen lernten, dass man sie angelogen hatte, als sie hierhergekommen waren - Ashtown liess sich einfach nicht besitzen und ausbeuten. Der Blutkaiser selbst zerstörte die letzte Bohranlage. Seither ist unser Wasser sauberer und der Boden etwas stabiler, zumindest erzählt man sich das."

nikunashi, to solarpunk
@nikunashi@mastodon.social avatar

The best part of , @pluralistic 's hopeful look at our inevitably difficult future, is that it portrays a hope that is not based on magical thinking or fantastical technologies, but on choices.

The book is also full of humour, pathos, insight, and thoughtfulness that run along an engaging plot that might have you reading into the wee hours.

I highly recommend it.

sarenaulibarri, to random
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The Ursula K LeGuin Prize for fiction has been announced, and it’s @StelliformPress author Rebecca Campbell for her novella ARBOREALITY! 🎉

“In her masterful and profoundly ethical stories, Campbell asks us what might be saved, what must be saved, and what it will take to do so.”

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/prize23

sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
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Cover Reveal! The newest anthology from World Weaver Press: SOLARPUNK CREATURES

Cover art & design by Paul Summerfield

Featuring stories by @rimibchatterjee @abekonge @ana @culagovski
@AEMarling @BrightFlame @gibbondemon @nroshak

See the full Table of Contents and preorder at https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/cover-reveal-solarpunk-creatures

sarenaulibarri,
@sarenaulibarri@wandering.shop avatar

SOLARPUNK CREATURES is brought to you by the same editorial team behind MULTISPECIES CITIES (plus one new editor!), spearheaded by
@focx, with funding support from Ehime University and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN).

Learn more about both books at https://www.worldweaverpress.com/

varelse, to ksiazki Polish
@varelse@pol.social avatar

Donoszę, że ekologiczna antologia komiksowa "Ostatnie drzewo" (Krzysztof „Prosiak” Owedyk, Berenika Kołomycka, Joanna Karpowicz, Kasia Niemczyk, Tomasz Kontny, Marta Falkowska, Anna Krztoń, Anna Helena Szymborska, Tomasz Spell, Jakub "Dem" Dębski) jest teraz dostępna za darmoszkę! A jak ktoś chce mimo wszystko rzucić groszem, to grosz popłynie do Pracowni na Rzecz Wszystkich Istot.

https://pawelkicman.gumroad.com/l/ostatniedrzewo

podrzucam na @ksiazki chociaż nie wiem, czy komiksy się łapią w tematykę grupy.

susankayequinn, to solarpunk
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The mysterious breaking of a tidal energy machine kicks off my near-future hopepunk climate fiction series. I really would love to see that become real-life (the energy machine part, not the breaking part).

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/governor-of-california-signs-wave-and-tidal-energy-bill-into-law/

First novel is free: https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised

@erinwhalen

susankayequinn,
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop avatar

First novel is FREE: https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised

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 Nothing is Promised.

sarenaulibarri, to solarpunk
@sarenaulibarri@wandering.shop avatar

I’m surprised and thrilled that my essay “Horror and Hope in Climate Fiction” has won this year’s for nonfiction! Thank you so much to everyone who voted for it! I owe a special debt to authors @dk_mok & @octaviacade, whose stories I analyzed in this essay, as well as Strange Horizons editor @jolantruchng.

I will NOT be giving thanks to the neighbor’s cat, though this would have been a very different essay without them.

timjonesbooks, to books
egconde, to random

"Condé said the novella addresses themes of apocalyptic disasters in a 'place-based' way, differing from the status quo of global destruction narratives that dominate the apocalyptic genre"

  • KSC Equinox

I am so grateful for this media coverage of my SORDIDEZ tour by Keene State student Ryan Pacheco. What a wonderful event!

@StelliformPress

https://kscequinox.com/2023/09/alum-reads-published-work/

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