TY - ABST T1 - “Kiss of Life” Y1 - 2024 A1 - P. C. Verrone ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of an allegory on slavery in which “Angels” appear needing help to build bridges between Africa and their world and the world of the protagonist, a girl that thy use go communicate with the other inhabitants. After the Angels leave, Prophets arrive preaching that there had never been any Angels and the bridges had always been there.

JF - FIYAH Literary Magazine ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Broken Threads” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Kevin Wabaunsee ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future where much of the middle of America is a “toxic wasteland.” The protagonist is a woman who is used to bring connected to a network through her “head tech.” She loses that connection while traveling across the area in response to her mother’s wish that she complete her mother’s work with fungi that provide an alternative much bigger, and very different network.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solarpunks” Y1 - 2023 A1 - J. D. Harlock ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Lebanese author KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author KW - Syrian author AB -

A satirical vignette on teenagers trying to rebel against a supposedly perfect society where they are bored.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Boston Hearth Project” Y1 - 2017 A1 - T. X. Watson ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia in which the homeless in Boston are dieing from the conditions, with the story focused on activists taking over a building specially built for the rich and repurposed for the homeless.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert, Blooming” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lev Mirov ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Filipino-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set on a planet, which may be Earth, that is toxic, with people living in domes. Some are learning to terraform the planet by planting trees and others are searching abandoned cities for any seeds or other things that might help. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U4 -

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Disabled Filipino-American author who self-describes as queer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Chance" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Young ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story set on a planet called Last Chance settled after the Earth’s ecosystem had been destroyed. At a young age, children are separated from their parents and live in an underground school, under a desert, where they are taught that the settlers had done the same thing to the new planet, but what they are taught is not true. Last Chance is like Earth once was, and the children are being taught what could happen again and must not.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop and the CFT" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brandon Crilly ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to deal with climate-change and focuses on one of the policies, the CFT, put in place to help. CFT refers to the Carbon Footprint Tax that is levied after an individual’s death based on their consumption pattern during life.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road to the Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - 9781937794750, 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirstlands” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in a drought-stricken Africa.

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - ‎ 978-1937794750 9781911143956 N1 -

Rpt. in his Learning Monkey and Crocodile (Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 129-42, with a note on the story on 177.

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