SHORT STORY COLLECTIONThe Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro and characters trying to find their place in a climate-impacted world. Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.Brigh...

A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we need.Betsy's a modern-day Witch with an ageless problem: she's worried about screwing up her coven's ritual. Again. But the coven has a bigger issue to face — the destruction of their home thanks to a fracked gas pipeline. And then an even bigger problem — a greed-fueled entity will soon obliterate Earth's ability to support life.Tarot cards indicate the coven must sort among allies ...

A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, neg...

A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct.But Shakespeare remains.A machine civilization, so far advanced that it has the power to recreate lost civilizations, stumbles upon the works of the playwright, William Shakespeare.With only those plays to represent humanity, the machines must decide whether humanity is worth resurrecting or not.The only way to know the plays is to stage them.

An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author.The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote.The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking thi...

She once ruled the stars—pilot, hacker, covert operative.Now? Sparks is a ghost, drifting through dive bars and forgotten outposts on the edge of known space. Hunted by blood-soaked memories. Haunted by the things she’s done—and the ones she couldn’t save.But this shadow life can’t last forever.When a stranger—half-lit in neon and speaking in partial truths—offers her a way back, Sparks knows better than to trust him. It reeks of a trap. Maybe it is...

A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct.But Shakespeare remains.A machine civilization, so far advanced that it has the power to recreate lost civilizations, stumbles upon the works of the playwright, William Shakespeare.With only those plays to represent humanity, the machines must decide whether humanity is worth resurrecting or not.The only way to know the plays is to stage them.Enter J-9, although she ...

A Hugo Award–winning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world.The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution—a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followe...

Winner of 15 literary awards, the #1 bestselling Tachyon Tunnel series is a gripping blend of adventure, romance, and hard science wrapped in an exploration of what happens when innovation outruns human wisdom.When engineer and scientist Alex Durant achieves a breakthrough once thought impossible, reality itself begins to bend. The tachyon tunnel is the most significant leap in human history. It unlocks th...

"The terrific conclusion to one of the best science fiction trilogies of the last decade." — BaryonEarth is dying. Corporate and political greed have devastated the environment and depleted natural resources. To ensure humanity's survival, people must take to the stars and find new worlds to inhabit.More than two hundred years ago, dissidents from Earth escaped from an authoritarian regime by hijacking a starship and colonizing the planet Coyote. It ...

A standalone Coyote Universe story from the Hugo Award–winning author that's "the best first contact novel in a long time" ( Rocky Mountain News)." Spindrift is classic SF in the best sense." —Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevittThe year is 2288. Earth scientists have picked up a transmission originating from outside the solar system. Eager to confirm that the signal may have been sent by an alien civilization, Europe d...

The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the Coyote Universe with this science fiction adventure about a disgraced pilot facing nature's deadliest force."The master of science fiction intrigue." — Washington PostDismissed from the Union Astronautica space fleet for conduct unbecoming, Jules Truffaut faces a bleak future as a grounded pilot on an Earth ruled by a social collectivist regime that denies individual freedoms. Hoping to st...