My story, “Thank Geo,” is included among some fabulous authors’ creations in Solarpunk Creatures. While set in the solarpunk future I’ve been writing, this story has a character unlike any of my others. Who are our kin? What makes us kin to one another? These are the questions I explore in “Thank Geo.”
What a fanciful cover for this sequel anthology to Multispecies Cities. A roaming armadillo with a loom on their back! I can’t wait to read the story that inspired Paul Summerfield‘s design.
A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, negotiating the challenges of multispecies justice.
This speculative fiction anthology introduces a whole new cast of more-than-human protagonists: organic and digital, alien and fantastic, tiny and boundlessly large.
from the book blurb at World Weaver Press
I hope you’ll preorder Solarpunk Creatures that releases on January 16, 2024.
An aside: it was lovely to return from Tejas Web Witchcamp to the cover reveal. I had lovely conversations with folx at camp about solarpunk. Now you all have another solarpunk book to explore!