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

Sidekicks are used to being hidden from the spotlight shining on the hero they support. They work behind the scenes, doing their best to support their more famous companion. There are times when the sidekick becomes the hero, when they have to step up and save not only their hero, but sometimes the entire world. This anthology is about sidekicks who humbly take those chances. Not just the usual sidekicks normally associated with Superheros -- "any" kind of sidekick in a science fiction or fantasy setting. This anthology evolved from a panel at MileHiCon in Denver, Colorado, titled "So You Want To Be in an Anthology?" The stories contained within were contributed by attendees of that panel. All net proceeds are donated to support MileHiCon. Make sure you attend MileHiCon and go to the panel to be invited to the 2016 anthology.

Here Comes the Sun! Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak...but there are signs of hope. In Solar Flare , we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and water-powered boat. Sail through the skies in a floating hydroponic dirigible. Skim along a solar-powered road in order to expose a corporation's secret. Hover weightless in space in a last-ditch effort to repair an umbrella-like solar collector. Or cower in a shelter as fire rages outside...only to emerge and discover the rebirth such fire can bring. Experience all of this and more in these seventeen solarpunk stories brought to you by today's hottest authors, including David Keener, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Sarena Ulibarri, Jason Palmatier, Lauren C. Teffeau, S.C. Butler, Devan Barlow, Chaz Brenchley, Liam Hogan, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Christopher R. Muscato, Rhondi Salsitz, Ember Randall, Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Kristine Smith, and Anthony Lowe. Time to turn the tide and dream of a better future.

Depois de destruir o mundo milhares de vezes e hipotetizar utopias bizarras e tiranias tecnocráticas, a ficção científica surge com um pequeno núcleo de histórias solarpunk: explorando sustentabilidade ambiental, criticando o capitalismo predatório, imaginando possibilidades de uso de recursos renováveis e inclusão radical. Os protagonistas dessas histórias não desistem da luta para se reapropriar de espaços abandonados pelo capitalismo, mas enfrentam o conflito em nome de uma necessidade humana, de um princípio partilhado por comunidades que querem imaginar um mundo mais integrado às forças naturais – e também mais gentil. • Ken Liu usa seu conto para examinar um dos maiores debates atuais: e se as tecnologias de realidade virtual e blockchain pudessem ser usadas para reprojetar a ajuda humanitária em tempos de crise? • Ana Rüsche narra uma história em uma São Paulo alternativa, quando Nina sai de casa durante um furacão e descobre mais sobre as forças da natureza do que gostaria. • Renan Bernardo explora a solidão através da amizade entre uma pessoa e uma androide, sua única companheira, que está prestes a ser desligada por falta de atualização. • T. P. Mira-Echeverría e Guillermo Echeverría escrevem sobre uma cidade pós-apocalíptica, Malos Aires, e um protagonista que sonha com a Cidade do Sol. Contando com treze histórias no total – de autores brasileiros, argentinos, estadunidenses, chineses, australianos, franceses e espanhóis – Como aprendi a amar o futuro nos faz pensar no amanhã e em como fazer as escolhas certas para chegar a um lugar melhor.

An optimistic solarpunk novella from the co-editor of the Multispecies Cities anthology.

A haunted father who discovers a place where incomplete things--and people--are made whole. A mischievous satyr who hatches a plan to set loose chaos on a global scale. A workaholic witch in search of her kitty companion. Invasive technology to rewrite the human brain. Dragon slayers. Zombies. Time travelers. Ice skaters. These twenty short stories stretch across multiple universes and beyond death--and yet, they remain intimate, personal, emotional. They demonstrate the strength of the human spirit to find hope and seek a better tomorrow in even the darkest times. A selection of the best speculative fiction from DreamForge and Space & Time literary magazines, these are the stories we need today as we struggle through a pandemic, divisive politics, rampant misinformation, a belligerent defiance of facts and science, and new technologies that are already spiraling beyond our control. Read, my friends... and take hope.

Solarpunk, cyberpunk with a hopeful outlook, futuristic fantasy, spec-fic stories that leave us with the idea that despite the doom and gloom in the universe, things can possibly work out if we strive to make life better, even if in a small way.