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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (original 2018; edition 2018)

by Sarena Ulibarri (Author)

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"Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. ... These are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air."--Page 4 of cover.… (more)
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Title:Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
Authors:Sarena Ulibarri (Author)
Info:World Weaver Press (2018), 292 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:*****
Tags:science, fiction

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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri (Editor) (2018)

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A really great collection of diverse, creative solarpunk stories. ( )
  bjsikes | Jan 30, 2023 |
Like many other reviews, this book is an anthology and some stories are great but some are just uninteresting. This is definitely a good book for anyone interested in the genre of Solarpunk. Personally, I am not upset with taking the great and the ok stories in this book. I appreciate the multiple voices but some stories could have benefited from some editing. ( )
  Kenttleton | Jan 18, 2023 |
Like many other reviews, this book is an anthology and some stories are great but some are just uninteresting. This is definitely a good book for anyone interested in the genre of Solarpunk. Personally, I am not upset with taking the great and the ok stories in this book. I appreciate the multiple voices but some stories could have benefited from some editing. ( )
  Kenttleton | Jan 18, 2023 |
***Who sucked me in***
Thomas from SFF180 in their SFF180 | Mailbag Monday | May 28, 2018 video on Youtube publicated on 28 mei 2018

Some hopeful science fiction stories. Sign me up!
  Jonesy_now | Sep 24, 2021 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
I received an early copy of this book from the publisher via Library Thing in exchange for an honest review.

Glass and Gardens is an anthology of short stories all about futures with worlds that are essentially utopian, or in short an optimistic version of steampunk. Overall I gave the book 3/5 stars because it wasn't my cup of tea in the end. Take a look down below for what I have to say about each story, going from highest rating to lowest.

The Spider and the Stars: 4/5 ⭐️
The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees: 4/5 ⭐️
These two stories were my favorites out of the anthology. I found The Spider and the Stars to be such a cute and interesting story to read about a future where humans learn to love bugs, and The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees was a hopeful story about a sentient mechanical tree who was soon going to stop functioning.

Caught Root: 3/5 ⭐️
Fyrewall: 3/5 ⭐️
New Siberia: 3/5 ⭐️
These three stories were also enjoyable to me, but in the end, didn't capture my attention like the others had. They were nice stories but I felt like they could have gone a little further and been made better overall. I liked the characters and story but they just fell a bit short for me.

Riot of the Wind and Sun: 2/5 ⭐️
Watch Out, Red Crusher!: 2/5 ⭐️
The Call of the Wold: 2/5 ⭐️
Camping with City Boy: 2/3 ⭐️
A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine: 2/5 ⭐️
Midsummer Night's Heist: 2/5 ⭐️
Grover: Case #C09 920, "The Most Dangerous Blend": 2/5 ⭐️
Amber Waves: 2/5 ⭐️
Grow, Give, Repeat: 2/5 ⭐️
Cable Town Delivery: 2/5 ⭐️
Women of White Water: 2/5 ⭐️
Under the Northen Lights: 2/5 ⭐️
The remaining twelve stories were all kind of the same to me. I read them all but they were just very lacking for me. I found that I didn't care much about the characters or the story of them altogether and I wasn't interested in what was going to happen. While they were good in theory, they weren't my kind of thing to read. ( )
  Dan_Avi | Jul 13, 2020 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Ulibarri, SarenaEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Cox, StefaniContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Edmonds, EdwardContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Goh, JaymeeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Graves, ShelContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jerreat, JerriContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Jessop, BlakeContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kenwright, HelenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Kepfield, Sam SContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lopes da Silva, MContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Mok, D KContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Nikel, WendyContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Patt, Julia KContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Ray, Charlotte M.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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"Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. ... These are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air."--Page 4 of cover.

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