Monk and Robot Series, Becky Chambers
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future. See also the … Read more
Category Archives: Punk
The Annual Migration of Clouds, Premee Mohamed
This slim, literary dystopia explores a mother and daughter’s relationship in a setting ravaged by climate change. –Buzzfeed With keen insight and biting prose, Premee … Read more
And Lately, The Sun, Calyx et al.
Bushland is burning. The Arctic is shedding ice. And around the world, people are imagining futures which function. Gritty, graceful, commonsense or whimsical, these twenty … Read more
Dark Constellations, Pola Oloixarac
Argentinian Pola Oloixarac’s novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and … Read more
A Scientific Romance, Ronald Wright
Ronald Wright’s A Scientific Romance haunts me. A terrifying vision of the future that our current environmental negligence is galloping us toward, wrapped up in … Read more
Glass and Gardens, Solarpunk Summers, Sarena Ulibarri et al.
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull … Read more
Solarpunk – Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável, Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
Updated: Coming in August 2018 is the English translation. Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the … Read more
Stealing Air, Ralph Walker
Stealing Air is the second in the Rising Waters Series of near future short stories. Similar to Black Mirror or Close Encounters before it, this … Read more
Interview with Cat Sparks, Ecopunk
I want to thank Cat Sparks, author of Lotus Blue and contributor to the upcoming Ecopunk! – Speculative Tales of Radical Futures anthology (Ticonderoga Publishing, … Read more
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, Phoebe Wagner et al.
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st … Read more
Maya Greenwood Series, Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing (part 1) An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a … Read more
Suncatcher, Alia Gee
Professor Radicand Jones has survived climate change, pandemic and peak oil-but can she protect her sister’s airship flock from pirates, and hunt down their shadowy … Read more
Hainish Cycle – Series, Ursula K. Le Guin
Each book stands alone, although all books in the cycle are set in the same universe. Works are not numbered, as author says: “People write … Read more