Afterglow
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Afterglow

Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

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eBook - ePub

Afterglow

Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

About this book

Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need

“This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of world-building. We, as earthlings, will be better to the earth after experiencing this book. That is not hyperbole.”

New York Times bestselling author Kiese Laymon

Afterglow
is a stunning collection of original short stories in which writers from many different backgrounds envision a radically different climate future. Published in collaboration with Grist, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions, these stirring tales expand our ability to imagine a better world.

Inspired by cutting-edge literary movements, such as Afrofuturism, hopepunk, and solarpunk, Afterglow imagines intersectional worlds in which no one is left behind—where humanity prioritizes equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community. Whether through abundance or adaptation, reform, or a new understanding of survival, these stories offer flickers of hope, even joy, as they provide a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality.

Afterglow welcomes a diverse range of new voices into the climate conversation to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. A creative work rooted in the realities of our present crisis, Afterglow presents a new way to think about the climate emergency—one that blazes a path to a clean, green, and more just future.

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Information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781620977705
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword by adrienne maree brown
  5. Editor’s Note
  6. Afterglow
  7. The Cloud Weaver’s Song
  8. Tidings
  9. A Worm to the Wise
  10. A Séance in the Anthropocene
  11. The Tree in the Back Yard
  12. When It’s Time to Harvest
  13. Broken From the Colony
  14. The Case of the Turned Tide
  15. El, The Plastotrophs, and Me
  16. Canvas–Wax–Moon
  17. The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Contributor Biographies
  20. Copyright