Featured Stories

The purpose of Bright Green Futures is to surface hopeful climate-fiction stories. The links below will take you to the stories themselves in various formats, the authors’ websites, and the episodes where the stories are discussed. Please see Hopeful Climate Fiction for additional recommendations across media (novels, film, TV, games).

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Many stories are free to read online (or available in ebook). Additional formats noted.

Ep 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author Renan Bernardo

• A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair by Renan Bernardo (Samovar Magazine, February 2023)

• A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity by Renan Bernardo (Escape Pod #863)

• Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo, Short Story Collection (Android Press) including The River that Passed Through My Life (originally published in Portuguese by Editora Dame Blanche)

Ep 5: Structure in Climate Storytelling

• Nothing is Promised series by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn

Ep 4: From Scientist to Author, In Conversation with Danielle Arostegui

• Solarpunk Drabble by Danielle Arostegui

Ep 3: Climate Fiction to Climate Action

• Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Slimy Things Did Crawl by Susan Kaye Quinn

• Tower Girls by Susan Kaye Quinn

Ep 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and author T.K. Rex)

• A Lot Full of Weeds by T.K. Rex

• Squawker and Dolphin Swimming Together by T.K. Rex

Ep 1: Stories to Build a Better World

• Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn (text, audio) (also in German)

• Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone by T.K. Rex (text, audio)

• Metamorphosis collection (print only preorder from Milkweed Editions)