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1) Hopepunk
Humanity is trapped in a loop.
As the world heats, it takes more energy to keep humanity from dying—a feedback loop that makes net-zero carbon increasingly impossible to reach.
Akemi's job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral
...Stars and Dark, a collection of five science-fiction stories, takes you to space in the far-flung future. Silicone-based lifeforms, queer non-binary AI, space stations, and queer trans post-earth humans all populate these pages, each character telling their complex and tangled story of life in a vacuum full of pinpricks of light. Let these hopepunk stories transport you to another time and another place in the great cosmos where love and hope are
...This issue of HyphenPunk brings you 11 new stories from 7 different types of -punk.
Raypunk by Artemis, Cameron Craig, J.D. Harlock, and Nicholas Stillman
Steampunk by Nicki Vardon
Nanopunk by DW Milton
Biopunk by Rob Francis
Mythpunk by Gary Every and Xan van Rooyen
Cyberpunk by Markus Wessel
HopePunk by Zoe Kaplan
Punk Poetry with Complacient
What would you give to live forever? Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they're smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands
...What does it mean to be human? Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He's the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders—the human/machine hybrids who run the world—in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever.
Too bad it's all a complicated web of lies.
Worse, Eli's not even entirely human. Few know about the
...For better, for worse. In sickness and in health.
It's a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues.
Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one—she'd give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job. The housing AI found her a family match, saying she should
...11) Towards the Sun
Tangents & Tachyons is Scott's second anthology - six sci fi and sci-fantasy shorts that run the gamut from time travel to hopepunk and retro spec fic:
Eventide: Tanner Black awakes to find himself in his own study, staring out the window at the end of the Universe. But who brought him there, and why?
Chinatown: Deryn lives in an old San Francisco department store with his girlfriend Gracie, and scrapes by with his
...The choice you make is the future you create.
Climate-driven plagues haunt humanity, and it's Regional Director Zuri Hill-Gray's job to keep the clean-energy grid running.
Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin's grid humming. If only she didn't see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too
...SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn't be possible.
Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the
...Stories of joy, music, and community.
Amphibian Press welcomes you to stand up with us as we support Club Q through storytelling. On November 19, 2022, an LGBT community hub and nightclub called Club Q in Colorado Springs was attacked. Five beautiful, vibrant people were lost. Someone silenced the music everyone in the club had come to celebrate with gunfire.
We came together with a dozen authors from
...SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree.
I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.
...SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift.
The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.
If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot
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