SHORT STORY COLLECTION The Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro and characters trying to find their place in a climate-impacted world. Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together. Bright Green Futures: 2024 contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem. The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri Centipede Station by T. K. Rex A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex Coriander by Ana Sun

Vivid Worlds brings together twenty exciting, new science-fiction stories by writers from all over the world. The emerging genre of solarpunk weaves imaginative storytelling with optimism and innovation to address some of the challenges humanity is facing today and is likely to face in the future due to climate change. These short stories not only offer fantastic examples of cutting-edge science fiction, they also explore the concept of humanity's survival from both a technological and philosophical angle. These stories offer hope, just when we need it the most. Donna Scott is the BSFA-Award winning editor of Newcon Press's Best of British Science Fiction anthology series (BSFA Best Collection, 2024).