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A review by ahawkin11
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures by Octavia Cade, Christoph Rupprecht, Sarena Ulibarri, Shweta Taneja, Norie Tamura, Avital Balwit, Amin Chehelnabi, Kate V. Bui, Phoebe Wagner, Vlad-Andrei Cucu, Caroline M. Yoachim, D.K. Mok, Sarah E. Stevens, Natsumi Tanaka, Rajat Chaudhuri, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Deborah Cleland, Joseph F. Nacino, N. R. M. Roshak, Eike-Henning Nießler, Taiyo Fujii, Andrew Dana Hudson, Meyari McFarland, Joyce Chng, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Joel R Hunt, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Eliza Victoria, Timothy Yam
5.0
**Thank you to Netgalley and World Weaver Press for the eARC of this collection of stories in exchange for honest feedback!**
I absolutely adored this collection and will be purchasing a copy to have on my shelf once it is published (April 13th, 2021.)
The intro to this book alone was beautiful and really spoke to me. I have never read anything of the "Solarpunk" variety, and found a lot of parallels to what I consider "Cli-Fi" or Climate Fiction. As humans we are not the best at being receptive of our environment and this collection really highlights where we go wrong as a population and how we could be better as a whole.
The stories in this collection worked to examine how we can be better advocates for the planet and the plants/animals that are just trying to survive alongside us. I loved the stories that involved a symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, and the stories that emphasized how we can be better "listeners" when it comes to the environment around us.
Out of the 23 stories in this collection my two favorites are Children of Asphalt by Phoebe Wagner and The Streams are Paved with Fish Traps my Octavia Cade. There was a wide range of writing styles in this collection, and with some of the stories being translated from different languages I could see how some people could find the lack of cohesion a little jarring. I recommend reading this in short clips, I would pick it up and read a story at a time rather than trying to read it as a whole. A couple of the stories missed the mark for me, but I would say at least 90% of them left me with a lot to reflect on.
I would recommend this book if you care about the environment, enjoy sci/fi and cli/fi stories, or stories involving animals. I know some of the stories in this collection will be sticking with me for a long time.
I absolutely adored this collection and will be purchasing a copy to have on my shelf once it is published (April 13th, 2021.)
The intro to this book alone was beautiful and really spoke to me. I have never read anything of the "Solarpunk" variety, and found a lot of parallels to what I consider "Cli-Fi" or Climate Fiction. As humans we are not the best at being receptive of our environment and this collection really highlights where we go wrong as a population and how we could be better as a whole.
The stories in this collection worked to examine how we can be better advocates for the planet and the plants/animals that are just trying to survive alongside us. I loved the stories that involved a symbiotic relationship between humans and animals, and the stories that emphasized how we can be better "listeners" when it comes to the environment around us.
Out of the 23 stories in this collection my two favorites are Children of Asphalt by Phoebe Wagner and The Streams are Paved with Fish Traps my Octavia Cade. There was a wide range of writing styles in this collection, and with some of the stories being translated from different languages I could see how some people could find the lack of cohesion a little jarring. I recommend reading this in short clips, I would pick it up and read a story at a time rather than trying to read it as a whole. A couple of the stories missed the mark for me, but I would say at least 90% of them left me with a lot to reflect on.
I would recommend this book if you care about the environment, enjoy sci/fi and cli/fi stories, or stories involving animals. I know some of the stories in this collection will be sticking with me for a long time.