Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology)
About this ebook
Bright Green Futures: 2024 contains six short stories plus a bonus prose-poem.
The Doglady and the Rainstorm by Renan Bernardo
What Kind of Bat is This? by Sarena Ulibarri
Centipede Station by T. K. Rex
A Merger in Corn Country by Danielle Arostegui
Ancestors, Descendants by BrightFlame
The Park of the Beast by T. K. Rex
Coriander by Ana Sun
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About the author
Renan Bernardo is a Nebula and Ignyte finalist author of solarpunk, science fiction and fantasy from Brazil. His fiction appeared in Reactor/Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Solarpunk Magazine, Imagine 2200 by Grist, and others. His writing scope is broad, from secondary world fantasy to dark science fiction, but he enjoys the intersection of climate narratives with science, technology, and the human relations inherent to it. His solarpunk/clifi short fiction collection, Different Kinds of Defiance, was published in 2024. He can be found at his website: www.renanbernardo.com.
Sarena Ulibarri is an author and editor from the American Southwest. Her solarpunk novella, Another Life, set in a Death Valley eco-village, was published in 2023 by Stelliform Press. Steel Tree, a science fiction retelling of The Nutcracker, was published by Android Press. Her short fiction can be found in magazines such as Tractor Beam and Baubles From Bones, and in anthologies such as Solar Flare: Solarpunk Stories, Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, and Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures. As an editor, she curated the Glass and Gardens solarpunk anthologies, co-edited the anthologies Multispecies Cities and Solarpunk Creatures, and served as a story reviewer for Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction contest. Find her on Bluesky or Mastodon, or visit her website at https://www.sarenaulibarri.
T. K. Rex (they/she) is a science fiction and fantasy author from the western states, whose short stories and poems can be read in roughly forty publications, including Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future, and their forthcoming climate fiction collection, The Wildcraft Drones (2026, Stelliform Press). They’re an alumni of the Clarion writers workshop, a twenty-year denizen of San Francisco, and a friendly acquaintance of spiders. T. K.'s stories, socials, and newsletter can be found at tkrex.wtf.
Danielle Arostegui is a climate policy wonk with a passion for telling stories about how we can build a better world in the face of climate change. Danielle lives in the magical mountains of Appalachia with her husband and two black cats who have an unfortunate habit of chewing on her lampshades. When not writing, you can find her converting her one-acre property into a thriving food forest and wildlife refuge, hunting for vintage threads in one of Asheville’s many thrift stores, or agitating for the solarpunk revolution on Bluesky at @daniellearostegui.bsky.
Find more by Danielle at daniellearostegui.com
BrightFlame (she/they) writes, teaches, and makes magic towards a just, regenerative world. In her debut novel The Working, a modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. Her climate fiction is featured in Solarpunk Creatures, Bioluminescent, and Solarpunk Magazine. She's a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and the Climate Fiction Writers League. Her globally acclaimed workshops for magical and mainstream audiences foster interconnection and resilience, and help us expand our notion of what is possible. She co-founded the Center for Sustainable Futures at Columbia University that features her workshops and nonfiction. She lives on Lenape territory (Turtle Island/U.S.) with a human, a forest, a labyrinth, the Fae, bees, turtles, fungi, rocks, and many other nonhumans. Visit brightflame.com for musings, doodles, workshops, and more.
Ana Sun (pronounced “Soon”) writes from the edge of an ancient town in the south-east of England. She spent her childhood in Malaysian Borneo and grew up living on islands. Her Solarpunk short fiction has earned her an inaugural Utopia Award nomination and has been selected for The Best of British Science Fiction. In 2024, her work placed second runner-up for The Mo Siewcharran Prize. In an alternate universe, she might have been a musician, an anthropologist—or a botanist obsessed with edible flowers.
Website: https://singingtotigers.com/
Susan Kaye Quinn is a PhD Environmental Engineer turned speculative fiction author and the host of Bright Green Futures, a podcast that lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world. Sue writes hopeful climate fiction, futuristic spec fic, cyberpunk, and steampunk romance. Her novels have been optioned for Virtual Reality and translated into German and French, while her short stories have been published by Grist, Little Blue Marble, Reckoning and more. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. She writes full-time, trying to build a better world by imagining it first.
Website: SusanKayeQuinn.com, Podcast/substack: BrightGreenFutures.wtf
