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Bleu believes he can find the cure and save his little sister.
Atsushi believes first dates shouldnβt involve jail breaks.
Rana believes she can find enlightenment.
Kahali believes love overcomes violence.
Savas believes his destiny is to save humanity.
Some beliefs die hard.
I just realized: many people ask for #solarpunk book recommendations here in the fediverse. Now you all can include my debut, The Working! Also, I need to update the Great Reads section of my website to include recent books I recommend. A number of them are #CliFi , #solarpunk , or BIPOC-futurist. For now you can see what I already include: https://brightflame.com/books-i-recommend/
Allow me to rave for a moment about "The Book of Koli" to y'all. Also, too, "The Trials of Koli" and "The Fall of Koli," which together comprise the Rampart Trilogy by M. R. Carey.
What's so great about these books? Convincing and fascinating world-building, firstly. Koli lives in a world which at first seems like a medieval English village. But the village has "Ramparts," people who hold and control tech from centuries ago. A flamethrower, a database, a gun that never misses its target, and a glove that emits a force field. Plus, the forests outside their village are full of killer trees. Villagers must wait for cloudy days to go out hunting, otherwise the bloodthirsty trees will entangle, crush, and kill them by various means.
The second great thing about the story is the characters. Koli is at first a foolish, sometimes selfish, lovestruck boy whose main redeeming β¦
Allow me to rave for a moment about "The Book of Koli" to y'all. Also, too, "The Trials of Koli" and "The Fall of Koli," which together comprise the Rampart Trilogy by M. R. Carey.
What's so great about these books? Convincing and fascinating world-building, firstly. Koli lives in a world which at first seems like a medieval English village. But the village has "Ramparts," people who hold and control tech from centuries ago. A flamethrower, a database, a gun that never misses its target, and a glove that emits a force field. Plus, the forests outside their village are full of killer trees. Villagers must wait for cloudy days to go out hunting, otherwise the bloodthirsty trees will entangle, crush, and kill them by various means.
The second great thing about the story is the characters. Koli is at first a foolish, sometimes selfish, lovestruck boy whose main redeeming feature is that he really hates hurting other people and animals. Some reviewers complain about his weepiness, and he does cry a lot, but those folks are missing the point of Koli. He's not a typical adventuring hero, he's a boy becoming a man who ultimately succeeds (when he does succeed) in his quests because of his soft-hearted nature. He's also pretty good at woodworking and running fast, but that's about it. He's no good with weapons and he's not particularly clever. Fortunately, he's able to connect with people who are good with weapons (Cup, a girl who he inadvertently rescues from the clutches of a religious cult leader) and who are extremely clever (Ursala, an older, probably autistic doctor who travels the land with a mission to restore enough genetic diversity to the people so that humanity doesn't die out entirely).
There's one more important main character, but to describe her in any detail would spoil some important elements of the first book, so I'll just leave it there.
I am approaching 50 years old and am completely over coming-of-age, YA type books. And yet this series never gave me the bored feeling that I sometimes get from reading about the struggles of teenagers to find themselves. Plus, there is positive trans representation (especially in books 2 and 3) and Koli is clearly described as being brown-skinned. 10/10, recommend for anyone. #SFF #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #CliFi #ClimateFiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
(Carey is also the author of The Girl With All the Gifts and its sequel The Boy on the Bridge, both are very good. The first of those got turned into a decent movie.)
Once There Were Humans: Surrealism & Post-Anthropocentrism in Contemporary Fiction
18 June, free online
Climate fiction has seen a sharp increase on bookshelves worldwide, balancing topics of #sciencefiction and anthropogenic utopian & dystopian visions. In this talk, Leonie Jungen will discuss visions of the post- #Anthropocene, gender violence, & climate activism in contemporary fiction
Looking for recommendations for Climate Science Fiction - I want hard science and climate change futures if possible! #Bookstodon #CliFi #CliSciFi
It's official! My debut novel will release this summer from Water Dragon Publishing. I can't wait for you to meet the coven:
A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we all need.
https://waterdragonpublishing.com/2024/02/water-dragon-publishing-welcomes-author-brightflame/
#bookstodon #SFF #lunarpunk #CliFi #Witch #justice #books #pagan @fedpagan
Green Fuse Burning made the Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Books of 2023 list! So exciting! Thank you Alex Brown for being a champion for this "transformative Indigenous eco-horror novella"!
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/13/tor-com-reviewers-choice-the-best-books-of-2023/
#bookstodon #horror #horrorbooks #sffh #ecohorror #ecofiction #climatefiction #clifi #indigenousliterature #indigenoushorror
'hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are.' - positive affirmation, courtesy of kim stanley robinson's 'the ministry for the future'
#stayPosi #kimStanleyRobinson #literature #bookstodon #cliFi
I'm proud to announce that the #solarpunkPrompts #solarpunk #podcast is back with the second season thanks to the awesome @tomasino !
The intro is available at https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/season-2-introduction and the new episodes should follow weekly! You can also find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible and everywhere else ;)
If you want to get #inspiration for #writing your #nanowrimo #story , or just want to explore #climateChange #narrative s, feel free to jump into it!
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful β¦
Adapting & building community during social collapse. Prophetic for its time, remains unsettling. God as Change could be a genuinely useful belief system. Only half a book, with ending sudden & too convenient (there is a sequel).
Reading time 5 days, 62 pages/day
Different takes on the Underworld: the threads among Inanna, Persephone, and Mycelium. Plus discount code for the upcoming Climate Fiction Conference, an online Witchcamp you can join from anywhere, and more.
My newsletter will go out this week. Sign up today if interested! https://brightflame.com/newsletter-signup/
(I don't sell/share your info or write more than seasonally)
@fedpagan #WritingCommunity #clificonutopiaawards2023 #CliFi #solarpunk #Witch #pagan
20 years ago the world went quiet. Father is suspended between the living world and β¦
Post-climate apocalypse in #HuonValley & #Hobart. Mostly believable (ex-PM was a caricature, and questionable lack of planning for expedition) with survivors being both humane & loving, but also merciless when called for. Unnerving to see local area in this light.
Reading time 7 days, 47 pages/day
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #BookWyrm #CliFi #SciFi #Tasmania
My curated list of recommended #books leans towards speculative, diverse, #CliFi, and# solarpunk.
http://brightflame.com/books-i-recommend/ just updated!
@ReckoningMag I love this story! No wonder it's a finalist for the award.
Big congrats to author Taylor Jones; to you @MichaelJDeLuca as publisher; and AΓ―cha Martine Thiam and Gabriela Santiago, editors of Reckoning 6.
Hey #bookstodon #ClimateFiction #CliFi #solarpunk #SFF fans: subscribe to Reckoning, an excellent journal of #environmental #justice!
I'm delighted to discover this online interactive story that's partially inspired by the anthology I co-edited, MULTISPECIES CITIES!
"Pathways to Multispecies Cities: Backcasting from Solarpunk Stories" by Reetta Rossi
#solarpunk #ClimateFiction #CliFi #ClimateHope #InteractiveStorytelling #MultiSpeciesCities
It's a little like a choose-you-own adventure story. Check it out and play through the options!
