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Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation Paperback – Illustrated, August 29, 2017
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- Print length254 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 29, 2017
- Dimensions6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10193779475X
- ISBN-13978-1937794750
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Every story and poem in this optimistic illustrated anthology of "solarpunk and eco-speculation" portrays a future in which environmental disaster is encroaching on or encompassing our world, but a glimmer of hope remains. . . . Some pieces are bizarre. Many are haunting and will linger in the reader's memory. Readers who've had their fill of dystopian fiction will want to explore these more positive futures.
--Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Phoebe Wagner grew up in Pennsylvania, the third generation to live in the Susquehanna River Valley. She spent her days among the endless hills pretending to be an elf, and, eventually, earned a B.A. in English: Creative Writing from Lycoming College, where she also met her husband. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter: @pheebs_w.
Brontë Christopher Wieland is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University where he thinks about how language, culture, and storytelling shape the world around us. In 2014, he earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mathematics and Linguistics. His fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Online and Hypertext Magazine. Follow him on Twitter: @BeezyAl.
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- Publisher : Upper Rubber Boot Books; Illustrated edition (August 29, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 254 pages
- ISBN-10 : 193779475X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1937794750
- Item Weight : 12.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.58 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #311,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #734 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #737 in Fantasy Anthologies
- #3,402 in Short Stories Anthologies
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About the authors

Lisa M. Bradley grew up in South Texas, before the construction of the Border Wall. She writes about boundaries and those who defy them in works ranging from haiku to novels. THE HAUNTED GIRL is her first collection. Her debut novel is EXILE.
Her work has appeared on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast, as well as numerous online venues, including Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and Fireside Fiction. On Twitter (@cafenowhere) she tweets about Latinx issues, immigration, disability, writing, and resistance. She resides in Iowa with her family. For more of her work, please visit www.lisambradley.com

Jaymee Goh is a writer, reviewer, critic, and editrix of science fiction and fantasy. She was born and raised in Malaysia, and is currently abroad in the States for post-graduate education. Her academic research interests lie in science fiction studies (in particular steampunk), critical race theory (with a focus on whiteness studies), and media representation of racial minorities. She has been interviewed for ELLE Magazine Malaysia, the Asian America Press Blog, and BFM Radio Malaysia. She co-edited THE SEA IS OURS: TALES OF STEAMPUNK SOUTHEAST ASIA (Rosarium Publishing) and her most recent anthology is THE WISCON CHRONICLES VOL. 11: TRIALS BY WHITENESS (Aqueduct Press). Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction magazines such as LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE, STRANGE HORIZONS, and INTERFICTIONS ONLINE. She is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop (2016), where she wrote about disappointing children, misandry, and horrific mermaids.

An Ottawa-based teacher by day, Brandon Crilly has more than thirty published short stories to date, involving things like carbon footprint taxes, a bookstore that knows what you need, and selling your soul for a love ballad. He’s a conference organizer, Twitch streamer, an award-nominated podcaster, a snake parent, and clearly needs more things to fill his time.

Nick Wood was born in Zambia and naturalised in South Africa where he trained and worked as a clinical psychologist. He currently works and writes in London, UK. He can be found @nick45wood or http://nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz

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Phoebe Wagner is a writer, academic, and editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. Her debut novel A Shot of Gin is forthcoming from Parliament House Press. She currently teaches creative writing at Lycoming College.

Kristine Ong Muslim is the author of The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015), and several other books of fiction and poetry. She is coeditor of three anthologies—the British Fantasy Award-winning People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016), Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines (forthcoming from Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press), and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021). Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital, Tin House, and World Literature Today. She grew up and continues to live in a rural town in southern Philippines.
Her translation work includes, among several others, the following bilingual volumes: Marlon Hacla’s Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020), There Are Angels Walking the Fields (forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books), and Glossolalia (forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse), and Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles’s Three Books (Broken Sleep Books, 2020), Hollow (forthcoming from Fernwood Press), Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (forthcoming from University of the Philippines Press), Pesoa (forthcoming from Balangay Productions), and Walang Halong Biro (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2018).

Sara Norja dreams in two languages and has a predilection for tea. Born in England and settled in Helsinki, Finland, she lives for words, dance, and moments of wonder. Her poetry has appeared in venues including Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, inkscrawl, Through the Gate, Stone Telling, Interfictions, and the anthology Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (ed. by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. Her short fiction has appeared in various venues including Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, and the anthology An Alphabet of Embers (ed. by Rose Lemberg). She blogs at http://suchwanderings.wordpress.com and can be found on Twitter as @suchwanderings.

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Jack Pevyhouse is a member of the award-winning audio drama production company Crossroad Stations, as a scriptwriter/assistant producer for Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, and voice actor for Misadventure by Death and Otherverse.
He has a BA in English from UNC Pembroke, and his poetry can be found in Open Thought Vortex and Paper Crown, and in the Upper Rubber Boot anthology Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation.

Chloe N. Clark is a writer and teacher. Her work appears in Apex, Booth, Gamut, Uncanny, and more. She is co-EIC of online literary journal Cotton Xenomorph and also writes for Nerds of a Feather. She can be found on Twitter @PintsNCupcakes or online at chloenclark.com

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To quote the forward by Andrew Dincher.
"SF that examines the possibility of a future in which currently emerging movements in society and culture such as the green movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, and certain aspect of Occupy Wall Street coalesce to create a more optimistic future in a more just world."
I don’t know how well these stories fall into that mold. Certainly some of them do, but many do appear to still be dystopias. Also the collection is generally positive, but doesn’t really have any exceptional stories and many that I have rated “Good” barely cross that threshold.
A few of the best are: Last Chance by Tyler Young, A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World by A. C. Wise, and Pop and the CFT by Brandon Crilly.
Note: The table of contents lists art works and poetry. I have not included those works for review, because I don’t consider myself qualified to rate them in any meaningful way.
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is rated 70%.
11 good / 6 average / 3 poor.
The Boston Hearth Project by T.X. Watson
Good. A Shadowrun-Cyberpunk style action tale of a crew that occupies an event center to protect the homeless from winter.
Speechless Love by Yilun Fan, trans. S. Qiouyi Lu
Good. A gentle love story with a twist. Two people in their own floating pods connect around congee and Chinese culture.
Strandbeest Dreams by Lisa M. Bradley and José M. Jimenez
Good. An unconventional mixture of poetry and prose detailing the technological hunt for an animal.
Teratology by C. Samuel Rees
Good. In the future, women go out fishing, looking for genetic abnormalities, and quietly commenting on the state of the world.
Eight Cities by Iona Sharma
Poor. No memories of this story. Nothing I recall
Dust by Daniel José Older
Average. A gender-fluid character has a connection to an asteroid.
The Death of Pax by Santiago Belluco
Average. Story that posits giant kaiju-like monsters as humanities future, but people are still people.
Last Chance by Tyler Young
Good. A wonderful and wrenching tale of children prepared to save the world from destruction. One of my favorites in the collection.
The Desert, Blooming by Lev Mirov
Good. A detailed and exciting story about what ecological reconstruction might look like.
The Trees Between by Karyn L Stecyk
Average. Another rebuilding the environment story. This time focuses around trees and seismic activity.
Boltzmann Brain by Kristine Ong Muslim
Average. A series of updates from a Scandinavian Global Seed Bank.
The Road to the Sea by Lavie Tidhar
Good. A beautifully written story of a child and mother who voyage to take a look at the sea.
The Reset by Jaymee Goh
Good. An ingenious method of almost-time-travel is applied with dramatic disruption to every person on earth.
Pop and the CFT by Brandon Crilly
Good. A dystopian story about ecological taxes applies to families after the death of a loved one.
You and Me and Deep Dark Sea by Jess Barber
Poor. A man returns to an ecologically destroyed California Coast and finds new life and love.
Thirstlands by Nick Wood
Average. A journalist in a water-poor future Africa, struggles to balance security and his relationships.
Solar Child by Camille Meyers
Good. A small scientific outpost, afloat on the ocean and beset by danger, hosts an very wealthy visitor. And genetically enginnered pterodactyls.
The Colors of Money by Nisi Shawl
Average. Spies and family betrayal admit a future Zanzibar.
The Herbalist by Maura Lydon
Poor. One character buys basil from another character?
A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World by A. C. Wise
Good. A great ending to this collection. A man writes love letters to his deceased wife as the rest of his family - and the world - leaves a dying earth on a generational starship. Heart warming and tragic at the same time.
First off, full disclosure, I'm not really that into Sci-Fi. But I WANT to be into Sci-Fi so sometimes I will request random anthologies, especially if it's something like Solarpunk that I haven't read before, on the off-chance that I will find something I actually like. I do feel like this is a very good introduction to Solarpunk - there are prose stories of varying lengths, poems, and even some illustrations. There were a few stories that I really liked that stood out to me - the first story in the anthology - about a team of people who take over a new hotel to use as a homeless shelter - and one later on in the book - about a scientist who tries to reset the Earth back 30 years to get rid of some of the pollution.
But a LOT of the stories in this anthology were what I would call dystopian and I am just so over that sub-genre in particular. It isn't exactly like the normal dystopian stuff because it focuses more on the environment and I would say it definitely has a more hopeful tone, but by the end a lot of the stories - while not necessarily bad in and of themselves - were definitely blending together for me. It's still a good book though and I think it could easily be a 4 or 5 star read for someone who is more into Sci-Fi in general.
Brönte and Phoebe set out to make a landmark Solarpunk collection, and I think they've done a brilliant job accomplishing that. This is exactly the kind of hopeful future (not an easy future, not a happy one, but a HOPEFUL one) that I want to see played out in our own world. Cannot recommend this book enough.









