Winds of Change

Humanity survived by learning to live above the clouds, beneath the earth, and on the move.

Now one misunderstood girl may know what the damaged world is going to do next.

Saima left the privileged platform society of her birth to build a life with the nomadic Winterwillow Collective. Travelling across a heat-baked, dust-choked future Earth with her husbands Pallas and Markas, she is still learning where she belongs.

When Winterwillow reaches the underground Aberuthen Warren, they find another Collective stranded, its caravan destroyed—and a thirteen-year-old deaf girl named Rina accused of abducting a baby.

As a judge investigates the apparent crime, Saima uses her unusual empathic abilities to look past what everyone assumes about Rina. What she discovers changes the meaning of the abduction completely. But violent weather is already bearing down on the valley, and understanding Rina may matter to far more than one frightened family.

In a world still recovering from humanity’s environmental catastrophe, survival depends on recognizing the talents people carry—and on believing that change can mean something better.

Winds of Change is a thoughtful, hopeful solarpunk science fiction short story about belonging, communication, climate, found family and the unexpected forms human adaptation can take.

Other standalone fiction by Cameron Cooper:
And We Danced All Night
A Place for Everyone
A Room of Her Own
Resilience
Space Opera Firsts
Galactic Reflections
He Really Meant It
Quiet Like Fire
Winds of Change
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Praise for Cameron Cooper’s SF:

Epic science fiction at its finest. Realistic far future worlds. Incredible characters and scenarios.

The concepts are staggering and intensely interesting.

This story is terrific! It's intriguing and futuristic and human in its telling.
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Cameron Cooper writes fast-moving, character-driven science fiction filled with big ideas, political intrigue, expansive worlds, and people facing extraordinary circumstances. Best known for the Imperial Hammer space opera series, Cameron also writes military science fiction, SF crime, dystopian and alternate-history fiction, and hopepunk.

Cameron’s publishing career began in 1999 and spans both traditional and independent publishing. Cameron placed fourth in Hugh Howey’s Self-Published Science Fiction Competition #2, and the novella Quiet Like Fire was an Aurealis Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novella.

Cameron Cooper is the science fiction pen name of Tracy Cooper-Posey. An Australian-Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada, where she writes science fiction fueled by Irish Breakfast tea, chocolate, and a stubborn belief that the future is still worth fighting for.