Editor Jetse de Vries has posted up the full table of contents for his forthcoming Shine anthology of optimistic science fiction… and I’m proud to see there are quite a few Futurismic alumni among the names mentioned! Here’s the full run-down:
- “The Earth of Yunhe” – Eric Gregory
- “The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up, Up” – Jacques Barcia
- “Overhead” – Jason Stoddard
- “Summer Ice” – Holly Phillips
- “Sustainable Development” – Paula R. Stiles
- “The Church of Accelerated Redemption” – Gareth L. Powell & Aliette de Bodard
- “The Solnet Ascendancy” – Lavie Tidhar
- “Twittering the Stars” – Mari Ness
- “Seeds” – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- “At Budokan” – Alastair Reynolds
- “Sarging Rasmussen: A Report by Organic” – Gord Sellar
- “Scheherazade Caught in Starlight” – Jason Andrew
- “Russian Roulette 2020” – Eva Maria Chapman
- “Castoff World” – Kay Kenyon
- “Paul Kishosha’s Children” – Kenn Edgett
- “Ishin” – Madeline Ashby
Shine is due for publication by Rebellion/Solaris Books in April this year, and is already available for pre-order on Amazon (UK and US). As far as I can see, there’s a dollars-to-pounds parity on price, meaning that Stateside readers can net themselves a real bargain.
And keep your eyes open for another optimistic science fiction story by one of the authors above, to be published right here on Futurismic later today… 🙂