"The Mighty Slinger"

2016 Buckell, Tobias S[amuel] (b. 1979) and Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968). “The Mighty Slinger.” Bridging Infinity. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 119-56. Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398. PSt

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland. Buckell was born in Grenada and raised there and in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. He now lives in the U.S. Lord is a female author living in Barbados but educated in the U.S., Canada, at Strathclyde University in Scotland, where she earned a master’s degree in  science and technology policy, and Bangor University in Wales, where she earned a doctorate in the sociology of religion.