@booklet {11504, title = {"Hospitalized in Utopia"}, howpublished = {XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, abstract = {

After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR\’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, url = {http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/hospitalized-utopia/}, author = {Caroline Ailanthus} } @booklet {11787, title = {Ecological Memory}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {301 pp.}, publisher = {Salt Water Media}, address = {Berlin, MD}, abstract = {

The novel is set after a pandemic, probably started deliberately, that wipes out all but 10\% of the world\’s population and depicts that relatively good society that is emerging after a period of conflict. Some technology, like the internet, has been revived, but the new society is based on independent but cooperating communities, each of which has its own money, called shares, that expire after two years. Occupations are organized into guilds, whose members wear identifiable clothing which, because clothing is expensive, are worn both when working and as leisure wear. The author says that she \“writes post-apocalyptic optimism\” (11). The text has Appendices \“The Science of Ecological Memory (269-291), \“An Annotated Reading List\” (292-299), and \“A Glossary of Sorts\” (300-301) that describes the plants depicted at the beginning of each of the nine chapters.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1628062212}, author = {Caroline Ailanthus} }