The Book Bag: Bright Green Futures

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Release Day! Bright Green Futures: Solarpunk Anthology edited by Susan Kaye Quinn ~ My Thoughts

Happy Release Day!

Congratulations Susan

on the release today of

Bright Green Futures!

Bright Green Futures: Solarpunk Anthology by Susan Kaye Quinn

Short Stories, Solarpunk, 238 pages

Published April 22, 2025 by Twisted Space LLC

SHORT STORY COLLECTION

The 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.

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

My thoughts about Bright Green Futures ~~

I've loved everything I've read by Susan Kay Quinn. I'm always very interested to see what project she's got going on, what words she's writing. She is the editor of Bright Green Futures, a wonderful anthology of stories that will make readers think about the future of our world.

As with any anthology of short stories, some of the stories will speak to me, the reader, and some will leave me scratching my head. But that's the beauty of it all, isn't it? That one story that takes me out of my comfort zone and makes me think. I truly believe this is the goal of any project that Susan is a part of.

This was a quick read but also an inspiring way to spend my time. I thoroughly enjoyed each story and highly recommend it to all who have a concern about the future.

I received an ARC of Bright Green Futures and this is my honest opinion of the book.

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About the author

Susan Kaye Quinn has designed aircraft engines and researched global warming, but now she uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from hopeful climate fiction to gritty cyberpunk. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. Her short fiction can be found in Grist, Solarpunk Magazine, Reckoning, and all her novels and short stories can be found on her website. She is the host of the Bright Green Futures podcast. ~ Goodreads

Connect with Susan

Website | Goodreads | BlueSky

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Monday, April 14, 2025

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 14, 2025 #IMWAYR

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week.

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Memory Collectors

by Dete Meserve

eARC for review

Pub date ~ May 20

Standing Up: Making the Best Out of Surviving the Worst

by Mary L. Devine

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ May 6

When We Were Enemies: A Novel

by Emily Bleeker

audio-book from my TBR

Published December 2023

What I recently finished

Bright Green Futures: Solarpunk Anthology

by Susan Kaye Quinn

eARC for review

Pub date ~ April 22

The Untended

by Mattea Kramer

print ARC for review

Pub date ~ May 6

The Mother Self: Poems
by Talia Gutin
print ARC for review
Pub date ~ May 6

What I am going to read next

See How They Fall

by Rachel Paris

print ARC

Pub date ~ April 29

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Monday, April 7, 2025

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? April 7, 2025 #IMWAYR

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Seems like I haven't been reading as much lately. The weather is sometimes getting nicer—some days yes, some days no— so we are spending more time outside on patio. I should be reading out there!

We also have been watching out grandson while his parents are out of town. So regular meals, bath time, early bedtime and all that routine, then off to school in the morning. They will be back tomorrow night so we are on the home stretch now. We are making pizza cupcakes together for dinner tonight. And I am loving every minute of it!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week.

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading