I'm giving away some books over on the Bright Green Futures podcast/newsletter!
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#bookstadon #solarpunk #climate #activism #climatechange
When Sue Orders Too Many BooksSusan Kaye Quinn (Bright Green Futures)
Amplitudes is out and available! I have a story in this! The feminine aspect of the Holy One fucks a closeted trans woman! There are lots of other good stories too! Read it!
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#books #bookstadon #scifi #shortstory #trans #lgbtq #queer
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bestseller!...PenguinRandomhouse.com
📚 It's spoopy season.📚
Please drop some horror book recommendations! I quit the last two I started and need something good!
I'm never so bold as to claim that the things I enjoy are objectively "the best," but Five Books asked me for a list of #solarpunk books I recommend, so I listed five I think more people should read.
All novels, too, instead of short stories! I also talk a bit about one of my own books.
#Bookstadon #bookrecs #ClimateFiction
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Solarpunk fiction is a form of climate fiction, but by focusing on the changes we could make, it can move us past climate anxiety, says author and editor Sarena Ulibarri.Five Books
"Books, I once wrote in one of mine, are solitudes in which we meet, in which the reader in his deepest solitude meet the writer in her deepest solitude; they encourage the empathic imagination that arises from entering into lives other than our own, from expanding beyond the bounds of the self; they encourage the concentration and attention that makes us thoughtful in the most literal sense." — Rebecca Solnit
@sindarina ha! There are so many people who do #bookstadon that it's got 37 hits (but #bookstodon is 526 so, er, yeah, I should use that! thanks!)
**Sue's Solarpunk Writing Class**
I'm still deciding if/when/how to run a class on writing solarpunk, but they'll be online and free. This form is just to be notified with the class signup information when I get it together (signing up for the class will be separate).
Subscribe to be notified about Sue's Solarpunk Writing Classes: subscribepage.com/solarpunk_wr…
New podcast ep out! Finally sharing that amazing conversation with @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social about Hopepunk and Horror on @itgodp.bsky.social (plus a few extras about murderbot and @habitatspress.com's hopepunk kickstarter).
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Twin Reactions to Living Through The HorrorsSusan Kaye Quinn (Bright Green Futures)
This weekend, I'm tabling with my #solarpunk books at Confluence (SFF con in Pittsburgh) plus I'm on 2 panels: Hopepunk in Dark Times & Workshopping Your Writing
Looking forward to seeing all the usual suspects and a few new ones! And meeting @catrambo.bsky.social IRL!
#bookstadon
Confluence-sff.org Confluence, the longest running Sf/F/H conference in SW PA!Parsec Inc
I'm excited to support Habitat 2, an optimistic SFF short story collection with *gorgeous* art, on Kickstarter!
I see more people looking for(& creating)these stories every day and it gives me hope.
#climates #bookstadon #hopepunk #SFF #solarpunk @habitatspress.com
Today in Labor History, July 23, 1944: Madeleine Riffaud, 19, got off her bicycle, pulled out a gun, and assassinated a Nazi military officer as he took a stroll over the river Seine. She was pursued by French collaborators with the Nazis, beaten, tortured and imprisoned in a concentration camp. She escaped, but was later caught, eventually being released in a prisoner swap. She then joined the armed uprising against the Nazis. After the war, she became a journalist for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and other left-wing publications, reporting on anti-colonial rebellions in Algeria and Vietnam. She also wrote poetry and a memoir: On l'appelait Rainer (Called Rainer).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #antifa #antifascism #journalism #france #communism #poetry #memoir #books #author #writer #poet #bookstadon@a.gup.pe
Well this is lovely! Thanks to Olde Towne for the shout-out!
And through the magic of @bookshop.org you can order my #solarpunk and #hopepunk books and support Olde Towne Book Shop at the same time!
Get the book: bookshop.org/p/books/when-you-…
Read the article: usatoday.com/story/entertainme…
Hang out in the YA lounge, play a board game or grab a discounted genre book on "Genre Days" at Olde Towne Book Shop in Slidell, Louisiana., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
So this is happening! @bookbubpartners.bsky.social boosted my hopeful #climatefiction novel & I'm excited for it to find new eyeballs (&hearts&minds)!
Also avail in print (Bookshop.org, indie bookstores), audiobook, *German* & Libby (request@your library)
susankayequinn.com/books/when-…
#bookstadon #ClimateChange
When You Had Power is the first of four tightly-connected novels in a solarpunk series. It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected,…SUSAN KAYE QUINN
Start my #solarpunk novel series free!
Solarpunk Novels Are Hard to Find: this is what I was telling folks at the Pittsburgh Festival of Books.
It was a cold rainy windy day, yet folks were coming out to talk to authors & buy books. The best part: talking to people about solarpunk.
I'm in this INSANE one-day free book blast
romancebookworms.com/
#bookstadon #romance
My Bollywood-meets-Steampunk romance ebook is free but also: audio,print,Libby! susankayequinn.com/series/roya…
Aniri is the Third Daughter of the Queen—zero royal duties—until a barbarian prince proposes...
STORIES TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD
lnk.to/BGF24website
"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."
#booksky #climatesky #greensky #books #SFF #solarpunk #bookstadon
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
My #solarpunk story ONCE AND FUTURE KILOWATTS in Solarpunk Magazine, about a coal mine converted to a solar farm and the long fingers of the past reaching to the future.
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#SolarpunkSunday #climatefiction #bookstadon
Solarpunk Magazine Issue #15 released on May 21, 2024.Solarpunk Magazine
Free to read online, my #solarpunk story IT'S IN THE BLOOD in @ReckoningMag
reckoning.press/its-in-the-blo…
#SolarpunkSunday #climatefiction #microplastics #bookstadon
The days were more dear now. She could give minutes to the snapdragons, pruning their spent blooms and freeing the stems to flower again.Susan Kaye Quinn (Reckoning)
Metamorphosis is a collection of hopeful #climatefiction from @grist and Milkweed Editions (my story Seven Sisters is one).
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#SolarpunkSunday #solarpunk #bookstadon #SFF
Climate Fiction for a Better Future Otherworldly but remarkably familiar, ancestral but firmly rooted in alternate futures, these twelve innovative stories--winners of the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest organized by Grist--offer a glimpse of…SUSAN KAYE QUINN
My #solarpunk novel series, Nothing is Promised, a power grid mystery with turtle bots and alt family structures, all battling the #climatecrisis.
"It’s about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed."
My collection of #solarpunk short stories, HALFWAY TO BETTER, with gorgeous lino-cut printed cover.
"These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world."
susankayequinn.com/books/halfw…
(ebook & print & audio — request at your library or local bookshop)
#SolarpunkSunday #climatefiction #climatechange #SFF #bookstadon #LGBTQ #books
Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future world where we’re struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world.SUSAN KAYE QUINN
One of the Bright Green Futures stories, Coriander by @ana , is published as a separate ebook and free for a short time.
"A cultural historian travels around the world to her great-grandmother’s birthplace and discovers traces that transcend time."
For #SolarpunkSunday I have a 🧵 full of works for your consideration:
The new Bright Green Futures anthology of hopeful climate fiction with authors like @sarenaulibarri and @BrightFlame: Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.
(ebook & print, request at your local library or bookstore)
#bookstadon #sff #climatechange #climatefiction
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
I would smash this into the concrete.
Early in the AI assault-on-everything, I wrote a few short stories about this endless thirst for data, how they would never stop & the invasiveness would quickly go Black Mirror.
Anyway, you can get those stories here: susankayequinn.com/books/close…
#bookstadon #SFF #scifi
The thing the machines consume is us. Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machin…SUSAN KAYE QUINN
y'all
I got a new t-shirt for my #library adventures
Supports this most excellent program For the People Leftist Library Project with @prisonculture.bsky.social 😍
bonfire.com/library-defender/
Support For The People Leftist Library Project. Public libraries need our help. As reactionary forces target libraries through book bans and some liberal politicians ...Bonfire
LAST DAY this #solarpunk story is free! Make sure to grab it now — and get the full anthology (or ask your library to carry it!! They love when patrons put in requests; check the website)
story: lnk.to/BGF24S5website
anthology: lnk.to/BGF24website
Grab this #solarpunk story by @ana FREE for a short time! It's the last of the Bright Green Futures stories I'm setting free but you can grab the full anthology anytime (or request it from your library!).
story: lnk.to/BGF24S6website
anthology: lnk.to/BGF24website
Some #solarpunk is very concrete, some mystical and some outright fantastical — this story about sentient trees somehow manages to do all those things plus tie the future to today in a way I really appreciated.
Grab it free for a short time!
lnk.to/BGF24S5website
#bookstadon #climatechange #sff
LAST DAY to grab this #solarpunk story free!
lnk.to/BGF24S4website
@daniellearostegui.bsky.social
#bookstadon #climatefiction #climate #communalliving
For a limited time, grab this #solarpunk story from @BrightFlame FREE!
#bookstadon #trees #climatefiction #climatechange #clifi #sff #hope @bookstodon
I love this little video from Brilliant Books in Traverse city with our Bright Green Futures anthology!
A reminder that indie bookstores rock & there's never a bad time to visit one. And @bookshop.org supports indies online!
brilliant-books.net/
lnk.to/BGF24website
#bookstadon #indiebookstores #solarpunk
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
For #Pittsburgh friends, I have two local events coming up where you can find me with all kinds of cool #solarpunk and #book stuff!!
1 - Solarpunk Future! expo May 29th, 1-5 pm
2 - Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books May 31st 10a-5pm
Details below...
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For a short time, this heart-warming #solarpunk story is FREE!
lnk.to/BGF24S4website
The theme word for this one is CLIMATE CONNECTIONS and you can hear @daniellearostegui.bsky.social and I discuss it on the latest Bright Green Futures podcast: lnk.to/BGFPodEp32
#books #climate #climatefiction #climatechange #bookstadon @bookstodon #freeebook
LAST DAY to grab this #solarpunk story FREE!
I love @daniellearostegui.bsky.social' story in the anthology precisely because it says "do the work, right where you are". On the pod today we talk about Climate Connections and the *very cool* climate board game that's her giveaway item!
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#bookstadon #solarpunk #climatechange
Bright Green Futures Anthology Now Available!Susan Kaye Quinn (Bright Green Futures)
Stories to build a better world.
lnk.to/BGF24website
#solarpunk #hopepunk #climatefiction #climatechange #bookstadon @bookstodon
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
The stories of the Bright Green Futures anthology each have a theme to go with them, and I've been talking about these themes with the authors in a series of episodes on the pod. A new one drops today!
Check them out: brightgreenfutures.substack.co…
#solarpunk #podcast #climatefiction #anthology #bookstadon
We lift up stories about a more sustainable and just world and talk about the struggle to get there. To build better futures, we need to imagine them first.brightgreenfutures.substack.com
Free for only 3 more days: grab this #solarpunk story by @tkrex about clicky space centipedes! Or you can get the anthology w/ a *second* story by T. K. that's actually a prose-poem. Both are amazing!
Free: lnk.to/BGF24S3website
Anthology: lnk.to/BGF24website
LAST DAY to get this #solarpunk story from @sarenaulibarri free! Part of the Bright Green Futures anthology of guests from the pod...
Story(free): lnk.to/BGF24S2website
Anthology: lnk.to/BGF24website
I'm a sucker for human-made #art, but an author who's also an artist? With ink drawings of her story?
HECK YEAH
Check out @tkrex 's alien centipede forest drawings & enter the giveaway celebrating the release of the Bright Green Futures anthology!
lnk.to/BGFgiveaway
Talking Climate Roles in @tkrex 's #solarpunk story about space centipedes, today on the Bright Green Futures #podcast... plus the amazing art she's giving away!
Podcast: lnk.to/BGFpodEp31
Giveaway: lnk.to/BGFgiveaway
If you need some delightful uplift today, grab @tkrex 's #solarpunk short story *Centipede Station* FREE for a short time!
(it's one of the stories in the Bright Green Futures collection, available now)
lnk.to/BGF24S3website
#bookstadon #climatechange #climatefiction
Also have my Spicy Penname books at the book show and so far selling equal parts solarpunk and spicy romance.
I love to see it.
(And handing out lots of zines!)
One new(ish) thing I'm trying w/this #solarpunk collection is setting each story free for a limited time—it's a tasty lunchtime read that shows what these stories can do as well as what you'll find in the whole collection.
So snap this one up while it's free!
lnk.to/BGF24S2website
#bookstadon
#EarthDay is a bag of emotions for me—launching a #solarpunk anthology (🌞), reading the news (😢😡🙄), agitating for a better world (✊)—my cope looks like sharing the shit out of #solarpunk stuff, js (drop some in the comments!)
(my native garden waking up for spring)
#bookstadon #climate #hopepunk
This Earth Day pick up some hopeful climate fiction to power you up for the fight for a better world.
#solarpunk #books #climatefiction #sff #hopepunk
#green #sustainability #climatechange #eco #nature #climate #environment #lgbtq #books #ecopunk #sff #bookstadon @bookstodon #EarthDay
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
This is the 2nd year in a row I have a #solarpunk book releasing on Earth Day & I like this tradition.
Last year, it was my HALFWAY TO BETTER collection of short hopeful climate fiction stories.
Tomorrow, it's the BRIGHT GREEN FUTURES anthology.
Both show the future(s) we could have.
#bookstadon #climatefiction
LAST DAY to grab this #solarpunk story FREE!
The full Bright Green Futures anthology publishes tomorrow (Earth Day)!
lnk.to/BGF24website
#bookstadon #books #SFF #climatefiction #hopepunk
Go to Bright Green Futures: 2024 (Solarpunk Anthology).lnk.to
