Solarpunk Creatures
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, negotiating the challenges of multispecies justice. This speculative fiction anthology introduces a whole new cast of more-than-human protagonists: organic and digital, alien and fantastic, tiny and boundlessly large.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The 20 stories and six works of art in this ambitious anthology center nonhuman protagonists, both bots and beasts, in climate-ravaged futures. Sometimes, nature, magic, and technology come together, as in Tashan Mehta's "Leaf Whispers, Ocean Song," a love story that gives nature a voice. Lyndsey Croal's bite-size "Hunting for Rain" features a robot dog on the hunt for clean water to save his beloved human companions from drought. In BrightFlame's "Thank Geo," a wildlife council attempts to contact a new form of life. In other entries, the natural and the mechanical clash: "Solar Murder" by A.E. Marling follows a flock of crows antagonizing a vital solar farm, while Jerri Jerreat's "The Wetlands Versus the Mayor" finds the land defending itself against a growing city. Each story pushes the boundaries of what the future, and the characters within it, might look like. With a colorful variety of tales of hope, community, and rebuilding, this will appeal to long-time solarpunk fans and newer readers alike.
