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sarenaulibarri, 7 months ago to solarpunk

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

#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #SmallPress #ShortStories #SolarpunkArt #SolarpunkStories #NewBooks

sarenaulibarri, 7 months ago to random

Shadows during today’s #AnnularEclipse in Albuquerque

#SolarEclipse #EclipseShadows #Eclipse2023

A wood floor with a line of a dozen crescents of light
A rock and grass. The shadows cast on the rock are almost a spiral of crescents.

sarenaulibarri, 7 months ago to solarpunk

The folks at Solarpunk Magazine have launched a Kickstarter for their 2024 subscriptions, and you can get my novella STEEL TREE as part of the “ebook bag” reward tier! This is a great way to grab a bunch of amazing optimistic speculative fiction all at once.

Check it out and support them at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/solarpunk-magazine-2024

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #ScienceFiction #SmallPress #SmallPressBooks #SolarpunkMagazine #AndroidPress #ebook #Kickstarter

sarenaulibarri, 8 months ago to solarpunk

I’m surprised and thrilled that my essay “Horror and Hope in Climate Fiction” has won this year’s #UtopiaAward 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.

#solarpunk #ClimateFiction

sarenaulibarri, 8 months ago to solarpunk

How it started / How it’s going

The same field at the rewilding project I volunteer at, 6 months apart. I wish I had a picture from a year ago when it was nothing but invasive Johnson grass & tumbleweeds! Still a lot of work to do, but after sheet mulching, weeding, & planting, it’s coming alive.

#rewilding #solarpunk #bloomscrolling

A field with rich soil, dotted with grasses. Further back, hundreds of sunflowers below green trees. Still a few tumbleweeds, but many fewer than the first photo.

sarenaulibarri, 9 months ago to solarpunk

#CoverReveal! STEEL TREE is a science fiction retelling of The Nutcracker that flips the original tale on its head and delves into issues like imperialism, colonialism, and class struggle. It will be out from Android Press December 12th!

#solarpunk #ScienceFiction #SciFiBooks

https://www.android-press.com/product-page/steel-tree-paperback

sarenaulibarri, 9 months ago to random

👀 The newest #Imagine2200 Editor's Pick story is "When We Are Ruins, Dance on Us" by M Jesuthasan

This story blew my mind the first time I read it! It's from the point of view of the former Supreme Court of Singapore--the building itself! It's a fascinating piece of #ClimateFiction that's both dystopian and hopeful, both grounded and mystical.

I'd love to hear what you think about it.

https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine-2200-when-we-are-ruins/

sarenaulibarri, 9 months ago to solarpunk

"The greatest enemy of good climate fiction is the depression of climate science; too much 'doom-and-gloom' will make readers apathetic and bring about the same dark future you are trying to prevent... there has been a rise in creative work to counter the darker tones of dystopian literature. It’s called Solarpunk: a version of cli-fi with better, fairer societies using the disruption of climate change to create positive outcomes."

#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #BookRiot

https://bookriot.com/how-accurate-is-climate-fiction/

sarenaulibarri, 9 months ago to solarpunk

An essay I wrote about solarpunk and reincarnation is now up at the Solarpunk Station blog!

And be sure to check out the other posts in the "Solarpunk Spirituality" series, if the intersection of those two is something that interests you. Everyone who's written a blog for this series has a little different take on it!

#solarpunk #lunarpunk

https://solarpunkstation.com/2023/08/03/the-single-use-soul/

sarenaulibarri, 10 months ago to sciencefiction

In honor of being back in Austin for #ArmadilloCon here's a #ScienceFiction Western short story that I set in a near-future skyscraper-ranch near 6th Street. 🐄 🤠

https://dreamforge.mywebportal.app/dreamforge/stories/show/the-spiral-ranch-serena-ulibarri

sarenaulibarri, 10 months ago to solarpunk

Out now! SOLAR FLARE: Solarpunk Stories from the publisher Zombies Need Brains, LLC contains my story "Walking Through Fog." It's about birth and death, extinction and renewal, in a community that harvests their water from fog harps.

Here's where to find a copy!

ZNB online store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Kindle: https://amzn.to/43cpYVA
Trade: https://amzn.to/3NSJnV5
Barnes & Noble: https://barnesandnoble.com/w/solar-flare-patricia-bray/1143500007?ean=2940160749563
Kobo: https://kobo.com/us/en/ebook/solar-flare-6

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #newbooks #climatefiction

Photo of the first page of "Walking Through Fog" by Sarena Ulibarri, page 50 of Solar Flare. A stylized black sun with a white center at the top of the page. Text reads: “Each one is like a little birth,” Malena says, her gaze dancing with wonder along the wires of the fog harps. Dew swells on the wires until each drop slides down, joining with the next and the next, delivered into the trough below. “Thousands of little births, every morning.” She herself is near to bursting like one of those dew drops, ready to welcome our child any day now in a rush of blood and water, pain and joy. She turns to me, smile radiant, and my heart aches at how beautiful she looks with the fog flowing around her. “I see why you like to walk here, Lexy,” she tells me. I lace my fingers with hers and we continue along the hillside, much slower than my usual pace. It isn’t the fog harps that draw me to this place, though it is true they add a strange and surreal beauty to the hillside. It’s the fog itself that I enjoy.

sarenaulibarri, 10 months ago to sciencefiction

My friend Reese Hogan isn’t on Mastodon, so I’m here to shout about his new book for him!

MY HEART IS HUMAN is out today!

If you want a story about:

-A single trans father with an evolving A.I. in his head
-A love interest who hunts robots for a living
-Rock concerts
-Deep convos about identity & what makes us human

Then find the book / #audiobook links at: http://www.reesehogan.com/

#ScienceFiction #BookBirthday #MustRead #NewBooks #TransLit #QueerLit #SciFi #TransBooks #QueerBooks

sarenaulibarri, 11 months ago to solarpunk

I'm delighted to discover this online interactive story that's partially inspired by the anthology I co-edited, MULTISPECIES CITIES!

"Pathways to Multispecies Cities: Backcasting from Solarpunk Stories" by Reetta Rossi

#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #CliFi #ClimateHope #InteractiveStorytelling #MultiSpeciesCities

It's a little like a choose-you-own adventure story. Check it out and play through the options!

https://reettarossi.itch.io/multispecies-cities

sarenaulibarri, 11 months ago to random

I'm so grateful that my personal essay "Horror and Hope in Climate Fiction" is nominated for this year's #UtopiaAward in nonfiction!

The Utopia Awards are decided by public vote, so be sure to check out all the nominees and vote for your picks by August 6th.

https://www.clificon.com/nominees-voting

You can read my essay at Strange Horizons here: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/horror-and-hope-in-climate-fiction/

sarenaulibarri, 1 year ago to random

Reminder that Imagine 2200 closes for submissions in one week! (June 13th)

Seeking stories 3000 to 5000 words. No entry fee!

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #hopepunk #ecopunk #ecofiction #climatefiction #clifi #climatestories #climatehope #callforsubs #callforsubmissions #writingprompt #writingcontest #shortstorywriter #shortstory

https://grist.submittable.com/submit

sarenaulibarri, 1 year ago to random

ANOTHER LIFE is out now in ebook and paperback!

When scientific proof of reincarnation emerges, the founder of a peaceful ecovillage grapples with the darkness of a past that's suddenly personal.

Find a link to your favorite online bookseller here:
http://sarenaulibarri.com/books.html

Or ask your local #IndependentBookstore or #Library to order a copy!

#solarpunk #lunarpunk #ecofiction #ClimateFiction #clifi #ScienceFiction #SciFi #NewBooks #BookBirthday