“A Chant for Circularity”

2023 Willmott, Aaron. “A Chant for Circularity.” Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology. Ed. Justine Norton-Kertson (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 51-71. PSt

The story is set in a future in which eutopias have been created on the surface of Earth and under the surface with a treaty regulating relations between them. It is suggested that those underground constituted some sort of “other” that was banished, but this is never explained. The circularity of the title refers to the surface’s waste being pimped underground where it is reused or repurposed and sent back to the surface. In the story, the underground starts receiving large amounts of material that cannot be reused or repurposed, which is a violation of the treaty. The author was born and raised in Wales and lives in Germany where he is a doctoral student in Agroecology at the University of Hohenheim.