![]() ![]() ![]() We wanted to use the burgeoning genre of solarpunk to inspire not just speculative fiction fans, but also activists looking for resilience in increasingly bleak times. This was more recognition than we ever hoped for, but recognition that our contributors and their wonderful work deserved many times over. Eventually, this anthology, published by Upper Rubber Boot Books in 2017, gave itself the name Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation and garnered a couple hundred submissions, $6000 on Kickstarter, write-ups in both LA Review of Books and Publishers Weekly, and inclusion in multiple yearly best-of anthologies. We figured that others would want the same, and, in the spirit of proactive transformation, we set out to collect an anthology of speculative fiction that aligned with what we wanted to both read and write. Both of us wanted to write speculative literature-but not about dystopias-and even more than that, we wanted to read and love non-dystopian speculative fiction. Phoebe, from working in rural Pennsylvania, and Brontë, from teaching English in Spain. Personally, we both left radically different situations to start an MFA in Ames, Iowa. At the height of dystopian entertainment’s popularity, presidential campaigns also kicked into gear, prompting the latest rise in nationalism and fascism and emboldening their adherents. Even then, 2015 felt like a turning point. ![]()
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