Search Worlds Without End

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 utopias--they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers) - essay by Sarena Ulibarri
• 3 - Caught Root - short story by Julia K. Patt
• 10 - The Spider and the Stars - short story by D. K. Mok
• 31 - Riot of the Wind and Sun - short story by Jennifer Lee Rossman
• 40 - Fyrewall - short story by Stefani Cox
• 53 - Watch Out, Red Crusher! - short story by Shel Graves
• 69 - The Call of the Wold - short story by Holly Schofield
• 84 - Camping with City Boy - short fiction by Jerri Jerreat
• 107 - A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine - short story by Jaymee Goh
• 119 - Midsummer Night's Heist - novelette by Guglielmo Miccolupi and Tales from the EV Studio and Laura Carolina Zanetti Domingues
• 143 - The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees - short story by Wendy Nikel
• 151 - New Siberia - short story by Blake Jessop
• 161 - Grover: Case #C09 920, 'The Most Dangerous Blend' - short fiction by Edward Edmonds
• 186 - Amber Waves - short story by Sam S. Kepfield
• 201 - Grow, Give, Repeat - short fiction by Gregory Scheckler
• 224 - Cable Town Delivery - short story by M. Lopes da Silva
• 237 - Women of White Water - short story by Helen Kenwright
• 252 - Under the Northern Lights - short story by Charlotte M. Ray

This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems--even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.

Contents:

• Wings of Glass - short story by Wendy Nikel
• Halps' Promise - short story by Holly Schofield
• A Shawl for Janice - short story by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
• The Healing - short story by Sarah Van Goethem
• The Fugue of Winter - short story by Steve Toase
• The Roots of Everything - short story by Heather Kitzman
• Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus - short story by Guglielmo Miccolupi and Tales from the EV Studio and Laura Carolina Zanetti Domingues
• Recovering the Lost Art of Cuddling - short story by Tessa Fisher
• Oil and Ivory - short story by Jennifer Lee Rossman
• Orchidaceae - short story by Thomas Badlan
• The Things That Make It Worth It - short story by Lex T. Lindsay
• Glâcehouse - short story by R. Jean Mathieu
• Snow Globe - short story by Brian Burt
• Rules for a Civilization - short story by Jerri Jerreat
• On the Contrary, Yes - short story by Catherine F. King
• Set the Ice Free - short story by Shel Graves
• Black Ice City - short story by Andrew Dana Hudson