I heard about this pre-release last year, but just remembered to check, and it came out three weeks ago!
Description
A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young woman communes with a telepathic fungal network to protect a forest. A suspicious cat follows bees across the rooftops of a solarpunk city, and a rabbit hitches a ride to the Grand Canyon to fulfil a prophecy. The path toward better futures is one we must walk alongside other creatures, negotiating the challenges of multispecies justice. Solarpunk Creatures introduces a whole new cast of more-than-human protagonists: organic and digital, alien and fantastic, tiny and boundlessly large.
Stories:
- “Threadloom” by N. R. M. Roshak
- “Sonora’s Journey” by Kai Holmwood
- “The Colorful Crow Of Web-Of-Life Park” by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
- “The Business Of Bees” by Andrew Knighton
- “Night Fowls” by Ana Sun
- “Water Cycle” by Lauren C. Teffeau
- “Microbia” by Center For Militant Futurology
- “Rabbits, Rivers, And Prickly Pears” by Justine Norton-Kertson
- “Hunting For Rain” by Lyndsey Croal
- “AI Dreams Of Real Sheep—More At 8” by Commando Jugendstil and Tales from the EV Studio
- “An Inconvenient Unicorn” by Geraldine Briony Hunt
- “Quorum Sensing” by Calliope Papas
- “Flyby” by Priya Sarukkai Chabria
- “Quarropts Can’t Dance” by Rodrigo Culagovski
- “Thank Geo” by BrightFlame
- “Our Minds Share A City” by Catherine Yeates
- “Hopdog” by Rimi B. Chatterjee
- “Solar Murder” by A.E. Marling
- “The Wetlands Versus The Mayor” by Jerri Jerreat
- “Leaf Whispers, Ocean Song” by Tashan Mehta