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Reckoning Press PodcastPodcast Episode 47: It’s in the BloodSubscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon.
Aaron: Whenever and wherever you are, get hydrated and get hopeful, because it's the Reckoning Press Podcast! I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to bring you another episode. Hope you're having a good one, because today we have "It's In the Blood" from Reckoning 8, written by Susan Kaye Quinn and read by Anna Pele. This is a story about one of my favorite things, guerilla pharmacological research and distribution. Not exactly a common genre, I know, but Susan has put equal parts thought and heart into her...
2025-12-1025 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 37: Triage, Transition, and Transformation: Change Work in Hard TimesHello Friends! In this episode I talk about the 3 T's of Change Work (Triage, Transition, and Transformation) and how you can use those situate yourself in the larger movement.LINKS Ep. 37: Triage, Transition, and Transformation: Change Work in Hard Times* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Download Zines: Bright Green Futures and How to Solarpunk* Hopeful Climate Fiction Recommended Reads* Climate Non-Fiction (revelent to Transformation work)* Solarpunk Starter Pack* Request Solarpunk at the Library* Ep. 25: Library Economies and Third Spaces(transcript available on...
2025-11-0914 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 36: Solarpunk and 4 Act Eastern Storytelling with Author Henry LienHello friends! In this episode, I chat with author Henry Lien about his new book, Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird, which is all about 4 Act Eastern storytelling, the Japanese term for which is Kishōtenketsu. We discuss the book, East vs. West storytelling, and especially how Eastern storytelling can be a vital tool for solarpunk stories.LINKS Ep. 36: Solarpunk and 4 Act Eastern Storytelling with Author Henry Lien* Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird by Henry Lien (plus the song)* Henry’s website (especially see his page on Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird, which has a list of ess...
2025-10-161h 11
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 35: Hopepunk and Horror [IF THIS GOES ON (DON'T PANIC)] Hello friends!This episode is a cross-posting from the podcast IF THIS GOES ON (DON’T PANIC) with a few bonus notes about hopepunk, Murderbot, and a kickstarter for a hopepunk zine called Habitats.LINKS Ep. 35: Hopepunk and Horror [IF THIS GOES ON (DON’T PANIC)]* Original posting on IF THIS GOES ON (DON’T PANIC): Horror and Solarpunk: How different are they? with Susan Kaye Quinn and Maurice Broaddus, and Paul Jessup* Maurice Broaddus (bluesky)* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine, 2023)* Why I Resisted Murderbot…and Why You...
2025-07-311h 02
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive PoliticsHorror and Solarpunk: How different are they? with Susan Kaye Quinn, Maurice Broaddus, and Paul JessupIn this mash-up column, Paul Jessup, of Fear is the Fire That Lights the Heart, and our own Alan Bailey along with guests Maurice Broaddus, and Susan Kaye Quinn explore the differences and simularities between the genre of horror and the subgenre of Solarpunk and come to some very surprising conclusions. We discuss community, resiliance, Weird fiction, anger and anxiety as inspiration, libraries, and the creation of possibilities. Throughout the episode they reference the following article: Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Facism: https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/02/reading-weird-fiction-in-an-age-of-fascism/
2025-06-1158 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 34: Climate Heritage with Ana SunIn this episode, I chat with author Ana Sun about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Heritage as a theme, and her very fascinating giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 34: Climate Heritage with Ana Sun* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Ana’s story (FREE until 5.29.2025): CorianderRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri* Ep. 30: Ea...
2025-05-1921 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 33: Climate Resilience with BrightFlameIn this episode, I chat with author BrightFlame about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Resilience as a theme, and her very cool giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 33: Climate Resilience with BrightFlame* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* BrightFlame’s story (FREE until 5.20.2025): Ancestors, DescendantsRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri* Ep. 30: Earth Da...
2025-05-1217 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle ArosteguiIn this episode, I chat with author Danielle Arostegui about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Connections as a theme, and her very cool giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 32: Climate Connections with Danielle Arostegui* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Strong Towns* Asheville For All* Danielle’s story (FREE until 5.13.2025): A Merger in Corn CountryRELEVANT NEWSLETTERS* Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change and Storytelling in the Underground* Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Re...
2025-05-0519 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. RexIn this episode, I chat with author T. K. Rex about her story in the Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Roles as a theme, and her amazing art giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 31: Climate Roles with T. K. Rex* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* T. K.’s collection coming in 2026 from Stelliform Press: Wildcraft Drones* T. K.’s story (FREE until 5.6.2025): Centipede Station(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up s...
2025-04-2830 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 30: Earth Day, Joy as a Tactical Weapon, and Release Day for the Bright Green Futures AnthologyHello Friends! It's Earth Day and we're launching the Bright Green Futures anthology. In this episode, I talk about why stories like these matter, why joy is a tactical weapon, and how there’s really only one fight we’re engaged in now.LINKS Ep. 30: Earth Day, Joy as a Tactical Weapon, and Release Day for the Bright Green Futures Anthology* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Download Zines: Bright Green Futures and How to Solarpunk* Little Free Library Map* Politics and the English Language by George Orwe...
2025-04-2222 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena UlibarriIn this episode, I chat with author Sarena Ulibarri about her story in the upcoming Bright Green Futures anthology, why she picked Climate Restoration as a theme, and her adorable giveaway item.LINKS Ep. 29: Climate Restoration with Sarena Ulibarri* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Bat World Sanctuary* Sarena’s story (FREE until 4.30.2025): What Kind of Bat is This?(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and ju...
2025-04-1418 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan BernardoIn this episode, I chat with author Renan Bernardo about his new story in the upcoming Bright Green Futures anthology, why he picked Climate Anxiety as a theme, and his giveaway item coordinated with his story.LINKS Ep. 28: Climate Anxiety with Renan Bernardo* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Bright Green Futures zines* Ep 27: Zines, Cultural Change, and Storytelling in the Underground* Renan’s story (FREE until 4.22.2025): The Doglady and the Rainstorm(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast an...
2025-04-0717 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 27: Zines, Cultural Change, and Storytelling in the UndergroundHello Friends! In this episode, discuss how the resurgence of zines is connected to cultural change and storytelling in the underground.Where to Find Sue (all events in Pittsburgh area)* April 26th (11a - 2p): Mt Lebanon Galleria Book Show* May 29th (1p - 6p): Solarpunk Future 2025* May 31st (10a - 5p): Pittsburgh Festival of Books* July 25 - 27: Confluence SFF Conference 2025LINKS Ep. 27: Zines, Cultural Change, and Storytelling in the Underground* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* Download Zines: Bright Green...
2025-03-2817 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 26: Bright Green Futures: 2024 AnthologyHello Friends! In this episode, we're talking about the Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology, set to release on Earth Day!LINKS Ep. 26: Bright Green Futures:2024 Anthology* Bright Green Futures: 2024 Anthology* Anthology Giveaway* BioDiversity LibraryBright Green Futures is a newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The best way to support the show is to subscribe and share the stories with your...
2025-03-1809 min
GrottoPodDespair is a Luxury with Nina Schuyler and Susan Kaye QuinnNina Schuyler, Susan Kaye Quinn, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss writing climate fiction and one central theme: hope. How to have it, how to write it, and why it’s more important than ever.Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and was published in July 2024. Her novel, Afterword, won the 2024 PenCraft Book of the Year in Fiction, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and Literary, and the PenCraft Spring Seasonal Book Aw...
2025-02-151h 12
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 25: Library Economies and Third SpacesHello Friends! In this episode, I explore how libraries are prefiguring a solarpunk world today.LINKS Ep. 25: Library Economies and Third Spaces* Nothing is Inescapable comic by Dylan Meconis, Jan 2018* Solarpunk Dreams: A Liminal Life substack, Feb 2025* The Existential Crisis of a 30 Hour Power Outage: Wild Letters substack, May 2024* A Library of Everything, Andrewism (2025)* If you want to belong, find a third space, Vox, May 2024* Closure of ‘Third Places’? Exploring Potential Consequences for Collective Health and Wellbeing, Jessica Finlay et al. Health Place. 2019 Oct 14(t...
2025-02-1514 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 24: Let's Talk About the Doom LoopHello Friends! In this episode, I talk about the doom loop created with geopolitical instability and the climate crisis, and the role of hopeful climate fiction as a tool in our survival toolkit.LINKS Ep. 24: Let’s Talk About the Doom Loop* A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning. The Conversation, Dec 9 2024* New Section on Academic Studies of Solarpunk on Bright Green Futures website* The Impact of Climate Fiction: An Empiricle Study of Readers. Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 473–500.* Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A global in...
2025-01-3130 min
Future Mending RadioStop Imagining the ApocalypseIf we want a better future, we need to stop imagining the apocalypse and start imagining winning. Solarpunk is an emergent science fiction genre and social movement that asks us to do just that.Matt sits down with podcaster and solarpunk author Susan Kaye Quinn to discuss utopia, dystopia and everything in-between. The episode includes a reading from T.K. Rex's story A Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone and a vision of what Toronto might look like in 2060 if we built better housing and transportation options starting today.Susan's Website: https://susankayequinn...
2025-01-1538 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 23: Creating Connection with Solarpunk and Author Sanjana SekharIn this episode, I chat with Author Sanjana Sekhar about her new story in the Metamorphosis Collection and how connections—across family, culture, and time—are what will pull us through the climate crisis.LINKS Ep. 23: Creating Connection with Solarpunk with Author Sanjana Sekhar* Metamorphosis collection (published by Milkweed Editions)* Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown* Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer* This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein* Solarpunk Starter Pack on Bookshop.org* Read/Listen online to Cabbage Koora at Grist* Sanjana Sekh...
2024-12-0645 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 22: Building Resilience for the Future (and Today)Hello Friends! In this episode, I talk about how community and connection are climate tools and tools to fight fascism.LINKS Ep. 22: Building Resilience for the Future (and Today)* On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder* Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)* Ep. 21: Doing Your Part (in the Climate Fight)* Ep. 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate MovementMAKE SURE TO ENTER NOVEMBER’S GIVEAWAYThis Solarpunk Starter Pack gives you a great sense of...
2024-11-1528 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 21: Doing Your Part (in the Climate Fight)Hello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the “easy to say, hard to do” concept of doing your part in the climate fight. LINKS Ep. 21: Doing Your Part (in the Climate Crisis)* Solarpunk Author Panel launching Metamorphosis, NYC Oct 7th Recording* Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future (releases Oct 22, 2024)* Nothing is Promised by Susan Kaye Quinn* Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island NYC(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustaina...
2024-10-1120 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 20: Technofeudalists vs. SolarpunkHello Friends! In this episode, we’re going to talk about the ideological war that’s rising up all around us, pitting the status quo against our collective desire for a better greener world.LINKS Ep. 20: Technofeudalists vs. Solarpunk* Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. Check out the Featured Stories and Hopeful Climate Fiction lists for further reading. The...
2024-09-1420 min
Escape To The Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook Experience!Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813900to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Release date: August 31, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
The thing the machines consume is us. Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around. That our inventions are taking things we can’t...
2024-08-311h 31Begin An Uplifting Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813900to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Release date: August 31, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
The thing the machines consume is us. Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around. That our inventions are taking things we can’t...
2024-08-311h 31Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionCloset Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813900to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Closet Full of Time and Other Dark Tales (Short Story Collection)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 1 hour 31 minutes
Release date: August 31, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
The thing the machines consume is us. Ready to lease out your mind? Or pay for your next meal with involuntary ads? The Closet Full of Time collection contains five short stories that speak to that sinking feeling that we're serving the machines instead of the other way around. That our inventions are taking things we can’t...
2024-08-311h 31
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 19: Witchy Solarpunk with Author BrightFlameIn this episode, I chat with Author BrightFlame about her new witchy solarpunk novel and how the mundane and the supernatural are both entangled with the climate crisis.LINKS Ep. 19: Witchy Solarpunk with Author BrightFlame* The Working by BrightFlame* The Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft (BrightFlame’s website)* Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo* The Spiral Dance by Starhawk* Thank Geo by BrightFlame (Solarpunk Creatures)PLEASE SHARETiktok, Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram, ThreadsMake sure to enter August’s giveaway!(tran...
2024-08-3049 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 18: The Power of HopeHello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about the four kinds of hope and how to understand the surge in hope and joy that’s happening in this political moment we’re having in America.LINKS Ep. 18: The Power of Hope* Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit* Rewriting the Future (Susan Kaye Quinn, DreamForge Magazine)* Sue’s website: explainer on hopepunk/solarpunk, short fiction, and novelsMake sure to enter August’s giveaway!(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly new...
2024-08-2316 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 17: Diversity in Climate StorytellingHello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about how to write diversely and why it's so important for climate stories. LINKS Ep. 17: Diversity in Climate Storytelling* Writing the Other website, book, classes, resourcesMake sure to enter August’s giveaway!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeal7OH0tiKlUn8HMJtBStjoDgmtcv0cnzHDRMBz6_UxUHNw/viewform(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get ther...
2024-08-1616 min
If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive PoliticsHow to Solarpunk in a Lonely World with Susan Kaye QuinnIn the second Solarpunk column of 2024, scientist, engineer, and author Susan Kaye Quinn, explores community and it's importance to humans and Solarpunk. Topics include working together, the importance of community, how social media and AI keep us from authentic connection, and why human-ness matters.
2024-08-1412 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 16: The Shapes of Stories with Author Tashan MehtaHello friends! In this episode, I chat with Author Tashan Mehta about the shapes of stories and how form has to meet function as we tackle storytelling around the climate.LINKS Ep. 16: The Shapes of Stories with Author Tashan Mehta* Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta* Solarpunk Creatures (with Tashan Mehta’s story, Leaf Whispers, Ocean Song)* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh* How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn* Green Dreamer: Alchemize* Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup(transcript available on substack)...
2024-08-0257 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 15: Climate Fiction Zines and Small PressesHello Friends! In this episode, we’re going to talk about the people who publish hopeful climate fiction, both to highlight where you can find new stories and where you can submit your own.LINKS Ep. 15: Climate Fiction Zines and Small Presses* Solarpunk Creatures (World Weaver Press)* Little Blue Marble* Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo (Android Press)* Metamorphosis collection (published by Milkweed Editions)* Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Milkweed Editions)* Grist (Climate.Justice.Solutions), a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling st...
2024-07-2616 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 14: Imagining Another Life with Author and Editor Sarena UlibarriHello friends! In this episode, I chat with Author and Editor Sarena Ulibarri about her novella, Another Life, how she was radicalized by The Conquest of Bread, and how social ecology, anarchism, and communalism inspired her worldbuilding.LINKS Ep. 14: Imagining Another Life with Author and Editor Sarena Ulibarri* Solarpunk Summers edited by Sarena Ulibarri* Solarpunk Winters edited by Sarena Ulibarri* Solarpunk Creatures (co-edited by Sarena Ulibarri et al)* The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin* Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg* New York 2140 by Kim Stanley...
2024-07-121h 03
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 13: Envisioning the Future: Exercising Our ImaginationHello Friends! This episode, we’re going to talk about how to exercise our imaginations to envision better futures, whether we’re writers or not, and how that’s a vital tool in our climate solutions toolkit.LINKS Ep. 13: Envisioning the Future: Exercising Our ImaginationSeven Sisters by Susan Kaye QuinnClimate Imaginarium, Governor’s Island NYCFascism and the Failure of Imagination video by Zoe Bee(transcript available on substack)Bright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just...
2024-06-2815 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 12: Building Movement Through Hopeful Climate Fiction with Editor Tory StephensHello friends! In this episode, I chat with Grist Editor Tory Stephens about Imagine 2200, Grist’s hopeful climate fiction contest, and how envisioning the future is an important climate solution.LINKS Ep. 12: Building Movement Through Hopeful Climate Fiction with Editor Tory Stephens* Grist (Climate.Justice.Solutions), a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.* Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction and Contest* The Grist 50: annual list of climate and justice leaders to watch* Octavia’s Brood by adrienne maree brown* Daybre...
2024-06-141h 19
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 11: All About Solarpunk: Literature and MovementHello Friends! This episode, we’re going to dive into solarpunk. I often use solarpunk and hopeful climate fiction interchangeably, but solarpunk is also an in-real-life movement and lifestyle. Today we’ll talk about both and how imagining a different world is key to all of it.LINKS Ep. 11: All About Solarpunk: Literature and Movement* Dear Alice, Chobani solarpunk yogurt commercial* Tech Won’t Save Us podcast* Write the Future You Want to Live In by Ana Sun (DreamForge)* Pittsburgh’s Solarpunk Future 2024 expo* Solarpunk Conference: Rays of Resil...
2024-06-0719 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 10: Adaptation in Climate Fiction with Writer Ana SunHello friends! In this episode, I chat with writer Ana Sun about her stories that examine adaptation in the climate crisis.LINKS Ep. 10: Adaptation in Climate Fiction with Writer Ana Sun* Soul Noodles by Ana Sun (The Bright Mirror: Global Solarpunk by Women anthology)* Night Fowls by Ana Sun (Solarpunk Creatures anthology)* Dandelion Brew by Ana Sun (DreamForge)* Write the Future You Want To Live In by Ana Sun (non-fiction article on solarpunk in DreamForge)* Ana’s blog post about Night Fowls (also on World Weaver Press)...
2024-05-3148 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 9: How to Build a Good AnthropoceneHello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about how non-fiction and fiction work together to help us envision a better world. LINKS Ep. 9: How to Build a Good Anthropocene* Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh* Seeds of a Good Anthropocene website* Taryn O’Neill, producer of Scirens* Youtube trailer: “The Assignment”* The Climate Action AlmanacBright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk...
2024-05-2419 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 8: Loneliness, Connection, and Resilience, In Conversation with Writer and Activist Jamie LiuHello friends! In this episode, I chat with writer and activist Jamie Liu about her award-winning climate-fiction story about loneliness, connection, and resilience.LINKS Ep. 8: Loneliness, Connection, and Resilience, In Conversation with Writer and Activist Jamie Liu* To Labor for the Hive by Jamie Liu (2024 winner, Grist Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors)* GRIST Looking Forward Book Club* Jamie Liu’s interview with the Climate Fiction Writer’s League (2024)* Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 - 2072. It's a long title, by Eman Abdelhadi and M. E...
2024-05-1751 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate MovementHello Friends! Today we’re going to dig into climate fiction’s place in the larger climate struggle and how understanding activism and movement building can help us to portray in fiction how change really works.LINKS Ep. 7: Climate Fiction in the Larger Climate MovementSustainability Salon page, hosted by Maren CookeSustainability Salon: Hope is a Plant You Can Care For or Kill (Aug 2023) (Susan Kaye Quinn, PDF, recording)Sustainability Salon: Movement Building (Oct-Nov 2023) (Penn Garvin, recording)Bill Moyer’s MAP (Movement Action Plan) (The Commons Library, video)D...
2024-05-1023 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Fiction with Author Renan BernardoHello friends! In this episode, I chat with Renan Bernardo about how grief weaves through many of his stories, but that, for him, writing solarpunk means bringing readers from those dark depths to a brighter place.LINKS Ep. 6: Exploring Grief in Climate Ficiton with Author Renan Bernardo* Virtual Author Panel on Hopepunk (Susan Kaye Quinn, T.K. Rex, Renan Bernardo, Brianna Castognozzi, Watertown Library, Jan 2023)* 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)...
2024-05-0345 min
Unlock A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775992to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 7 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or...
2024-04-2007 min
Discover The Full Audiobook That Keeps Curious Minds Hooked.Halfway to Better: (Short Story Collection) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775990to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Halfway to Better: (Short Story Collection)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 2 hours 40 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Halfway to Better is a collection of short solarpunk stories, each exploring a near-future where we’re struggling to survive the climate crisis and build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories take you from the bottom of the sea to the towers of a bot-filled city, from sparkling labs to flooded lighthouses, all imagining futures halfway to a better world. The Ha...
2024-04-202h 40
Enjoy A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Transformative.I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 13 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk...
2024-04-2013 min
Embark On The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Experience!Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775993to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 33 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the 'greenbelt,' but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
2024-04-2033 minFeel: This Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook For Book-Lovers.I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 13 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk...
2024-04-2013 min
Press Play On The Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook Now, Busy Professionals!Planting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775994to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Planting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end. Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in t...
2024-04-2025 minEscape To Into A Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook Right Now.The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775992to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 7 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or...
2024-04-2007 min
Ignite A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Captivating.Slimy Things Did Crawl: Halfway to Better 1 by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775996to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Slimy Things Did Crawl: Halfway to Better 1
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 40 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible. Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mi...
2024-04-2040 minEscape To A Captivating Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775993to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 33 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the 'greenbelt,' but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
2024-04-2033 minImmerse Yourself In This Best-Selling Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Planting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775994to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Planting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end. Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in t...
2024-04-2025 min
Get Lost In A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Powerful.Tower Girls: (Halfway to Better 2) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775995to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tower Girls: (Halfway to Better 2)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 36 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita’s a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she’s certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on… Tower Girls is one of six short solarp...
2024-04-2036 minListen To Into A Thrilling Full Audiobook While Traveling.Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775993to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 33 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the 'greenbelt,' but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
2024-04-2033 minListen to Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775992to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 7 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or...
2024-04-2007 minListen to Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianTombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775993to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 33 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the 'greenbelt,' but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
2024-04-2033 minDownload New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short StoriesPlanting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775994to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Planting the Shell-Bones: (Halfway to Better 3)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 25 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Living in a flooded lighthouse is probably illegal, but no one has come to kick her out, so she keeps furtively tending the oyster beds and feeding the crows. But when a storm brings an unexpected—and unwelcome—visitor, her time in this final refuge might be at an end. Planting the Shell-Bones is one of six short solarpunk stories in t...
2024-04-2025 minDownload New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short StoriesTombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775993to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tombs Without Bodies: (Halfway to Better 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 33 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the 'greenbelt,' but a young woman’s curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Ro...
2024-04-2033 minDownload New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short StoriesThe Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775992to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Day We Stopped Burning: (Halfway to Better 5)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 7 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or...
2024-04-2007 minDownload New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Short StoriesI Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/775991to listen full audiobooks.
Title: I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest: (Halfway to Better 6)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Emily Ellet
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 0 hours 13 minutes
Release date: April 20, 2024
Genres: Short Stories
Publisher's Summary:
SHORT STORY: A very short story about the cost of cutting down a tree. I Came Home From Saving the Rainforest is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk...
2024-04-2013 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 5: Structure in Climate StorytellingHello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the connection between the structure of stories and how we think about the climate.LINKS Ep. 5: Structure in Climate Storytelling* The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh* Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson* Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger* Nothing is Promised series by Susan Kaye Quinn* Halfway to Better by Susan Kaye Quinn* Eddie Spaghetti ArtBright Green Futures is a weekly newsletter/podcast and lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just...
2024-04-1915 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 4: Scientist to Author, In Conversation with Danielle ArosteguiHello Friends! In this episode, I chat with Danielle Arostegui about her policy work for the Environmental Defense Fund, working at a Congressional thinktank to help pass the Inflation Reduction Act, and then deciding that writing climate fiction was where she wanted to take the fight next.LINKS Ep. 4: From Scientist to Author, In Conversation with Danielle ArosteguiSolarpunk Drabble by Danielle ArosteguiGrist’s Climate Fiction Drabbles (100 word stories)(transcript available on substack)https://grist.org/looking-forward/climate-fiction-drabbles-our-future-in-100-words/https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-arostegui/Bright Green Futures is...
2024-04-1250 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 3: From Climate Fiction to Climate ActionHello Friends! Today we’re going to talk about the connection between climate fiction and climate action in the real world.LINKS Ep. 3: Climate Fiction to Climate ActionThe two stories I discuss in this pod are part of a collection called Halfway to Better, which is available for preorder and releases on Earth Day, April 22nd. The individual stories are free to read—I hope you’ll download them and give them a try.* Halfway to Better (releases April 22nd) by Susan Kaye Quinn* Slimy Things Did Crawl by Susan Kaye Q...
2024-04-0519 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 2: Chatting with Dolphins (and Author T. K. Rex)Hello Friends! In this episode, I chat with author T.K. Rex about her solarpunk stories, including one where we’re talking to dolphins! We discuss how communicating with the non-human can open up our perspective about the changing climate and how the interface between ourselves and nature (and technology) needs to change. LINKS 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(transcript available on substack) Bright Green Futures is a we...
2024-03-2849 min
Bright Green Futures PodcastEp. 1: Stories to Build a Better WorldHello Friends! Bright Green Futures lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world and to talk about the struggle to get there. In the first episode, I talk about why we even need a podcast/newsletter like this. Why new stories are key to building a better world.LINKS Ep. 1: Stories to Build a Better World* Seven Sisters by Susan Kaye Quinn (also in German)* Holdout in the Northern California Designated Wildcraft Zone by T.K. Rex* Metamorphosis collection (preorder from Milkweed Editions)SUBSCRIBE TO WIN STICKERS
2024-03-2016 min
Don’t Miss The Most Vivid Full Audiobook Today!The Legacy Human (Singularity 1) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431183to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Legacy Human (Singularity 1)
Series: #1 of Singularity
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Release date: February 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
What would you give to live forever? Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue s...
2024-02-2010h 06
Listen To Your Ears To A Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook.The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513112to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3)
Series: #3 of Singularity
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Release date: February 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
What if you could paint with reality? Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiting for… including the girl he’s falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleedi...
2024-02-2010h 14Get Your Favorite Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Legacy Human (Singularity 1) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431183to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Legacy Human (Singularity 1)
Series: #1 of Singularity
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Release date: February 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
What would you give to live forever? Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue s...
2024-02-2010h 06Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513112to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3)
Series: #3 of Singularity
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Release date: February 20, 2024
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
What if you could paint with reality? Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiting for… including the girl he’s falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleedi...
2024-02-2010h 14
Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction PodcastShining Moon Episode 28: Cozy Fantasy and HopepunkHello, and welcome to Shining Moon episode 28, Cozy Fantasy and Hopepunk. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. This week we’ll be having a conversation with M. E. (Mary) Garber, Susan Kaye Quinn, and John Wiswell. Itinerant writer M. E. Garber currently lives halfway between the Kennedy Space Center and Disney World, an ideal place for writing speculative fiction. When not writing, she’s often sipping tea, snapping pics, or tending orchids, sometimes all at once. Visit her online at http://megarber.net or on Mastodon @megarber@wandering.shopSusan Kaye Quinn
2024-02-071h 24
Feel This Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook — Perfect In The Car.Yet You Cry When It Hurts (Nothing is Promised 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741828to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Yet You Cry When It Hurts (Nothing is Promised 4)
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Maria Victoria Martinez, Ulka Mohanty, Paul Hikari, Tyra Kennedy
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Release date: January 4, 2024
Genres: Drama
Publisher's Summary:
When the world is drowning, diplomacy is more than handshakes and headlines. Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not the IEC’s daily reports. On a calm day, being a director at the International Energy Consortium only re...
2024-01-047h 46
Download High-Quality Full Audiobooks in Fiction, DramaYet You Cry When It Hurts (Nothing is Promised 4) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/741828 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yet You Cry When It Hurts (Nothing is Promised 4) Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Narrator: Maria Victoria Martinez, Ulka Mohanty, Paul Hikari, Tyra Kennedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 46 minutes Release date: January 4, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: When the world is drowning, diplomacy is more than handshakes and headlines. Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not the IEC’s daily reports. On a calm day, being a director at the International Energy Consortium on...
2024-01-0405 minShining Moon: A Speculative Fiction PodcastShining Moon Episode 22: Environmental Fiction, Cli-Fi, and SolarpunkHello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 22. Today we’ll be talking about environmental science fiction, cli-fi, solarpunk, and maybe even hopepunk. My guests today are Renan Bernado, Cecile Cristofari, and Susan Kaye Quinn. Stories featured in this episode:Renan Berando:"A Shoreline of Oil and Infinity," Escape Pod #863, https://escapepod.org/2022/11/17/escape-pod-863-a-shoreline-of-oil-and-infinity/ "Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital: Solarpunk Magazine issue #8.Cecile Cristofari:'Que la grenade est touchante' (Lackington's, Issue 24 (Fall 2021)) https://lackingtons.com/2022/08/03/que-la-grenade-est-touchante-by-cecile-cristofari/ "Th...
2023-12-131h 21If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive PoliticsSolarpunk: Giving Off Vibes - 2023 PanelIn our final Solarpunk column for 2023, we pull together all our Solarpunk columnists for a panel. Alan, Justine Norton-Kertson, Susan Kaye Quinn, and Navarre Bartz discuss Solarpunk vibes, how to improve Solarpunk world building, and bringing Solarpunk to a wider community. Reccomendations: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanly Robinson The Garbage Queen Unfucking the Planet Dreamforge Magazine How We Survive podcast Green Dreamer podcast Next Economy Now podcast Andrewism (Youtube) Our Changing Climate (Youtube)
2023-12-121h 00If This Goes On (Don't Panic): Science Fiction, Fantasy & Progressive PoliticsSolarpunk: Solarpunk Everything! with Susan Kaye QuinnIn the second Solarpunk column, Susan Kaye Quinn, author, environmental engineer, and rocket scientist tells you why she want to Solapunk Everything! Get under the umbrella, ignore the hyperobjects, and learn how to improve our future.
2023-06-1215 min
Geek Girls Story SalonGEEK GIRLS STORY SALON - S1, E1 - GOING HOPE-PUNK: SCI-FI AUTHOR SUSAN KAYE QUINNJen sits down with Susan Kaye Quinn, author of the "Nothing Is Promised" sci-fi series, to talk about her transition from scientist to storyteller and why she's gone all-in on a relatively new subgenre called "hope-punk." Check out Susan's latest work here and visit her website to read more about her philosophy here. And as always don't forget to like and subscribe to the podcast to stay on top of all the geeky goodness!
2023-05-0351 min
Wild Women Who Write Take FlightTo the Moon with Susan Kaye Quinn and When You Had Power, plus marketing strategiesWhat happens when a cool scientist takes on the future in a hopeful, community based way? You get the novel When We Had Power and a literary moonshot.
2023-03-3135 min
Alternate FuturesEpisode 34: Susan Kaye Quinn - Hope Punk, The Singularity, and the Need for Techno-EthicsIn this episode, I chat with Susan Kaye Quinn about her engineering background, AI-generated 'art', and her passion for the new genre of hope punk. We also discuss possible versions of the singularity, aspects of humanity we might be sacrificing to technology, and the desperate need for an ethical system to inform technological development. As usual, there's also The Lightning Round and The Big Questions.
Books of hers we discuss are: The Legacy Human (Singularity Series), Mindjack, The Debt Collector, and the Nothing is Promised series.
Further info on this and other episodes, as well...
2023-02-171h 48
Ian Talks ComedyCarmen Finestra"Cosby Show" producer and "Home Improvement" creator Carmen Finestra joined me to talk about his comedy upbringing; his first job filling in for Herve Villechaize; Joe Cates; making funny fire warnings; Johnny Cash & Friends; his first sketch is ruined when Johnny reads the cue cards wrong; meeting Steve Martin & Jim Varney; Sha Na Na; Chico & The Man; The Harvey Korman Show; Joe & Valerie; Mel & Susan Together; The King of Kensington; The Love Boat residuals; working with Johnny Cash & Andy Kaufman; Good Times; Highcliffe Manor; writing with Steve Martin & Jack Handy; Angie; Hank Aaron; Ladies Man; Harvey Miller; Twilight Theater; Pa...
2021-06-251h 56
SPA Girls PodcastSPA Girls Podcast – EP254 – Interview with Tamsin Ley
Today we’re joined by fabulous Alaskan author, Tamsin Ley, who is seeing great success writing SciFi Romance! We talk about Tamsin’s writing journey, marketing strategies, paranormal romance quirks and her advice for self-publishers.
You can find Tamsin at: TamsinLey.com
About Tamsin
Tamsin Ley builds worlds full of sexy heroes who don’t know they need a mate – that is, until they meet the woman they can’t resist. The romance is sizzling hot, a surprise twist waits around every corner, and the stories will never leave you hanging (although you may still...
2020-08-2647 min
Middle Grade Ninja1st MGN Clip Show 2018It’s the first ever Middle Grade Ninja clips show, featuring snippets from each of the podcast’s first 30 episodes. This is the perfect place for new listeners to start.
New episodes are scheduled to return August 13th.
Until then, enjoy this compilation of clips from conversations with AUTHORS Laura Martin, Barabra Shoup, Jeff Norton, Darby Karchut, Susan Kaye Quinn, Jacqueline West, Daniel Kenney, Tommy Greenwald, Steven K Smith, Lamar Giles, Kathi Appelt, Padma Venkatraman, Jessica Lawson, Daniel José Older, Dustin Brady, Amber Smith, Marie Miranda Cruz,M.G. Hennessey, Debbie Dadey, LITERARY AGENTS John Cusick, Jennifer March Soloway, Holly Root...
2019-08-023h 33
Middle Grade Ninja6 Author Susan Kaye QuinnAuthor and indie publishing expert Susan Kaye Quinn and I discuss her career in publishing as well as her approach to writing and editing. She shares many tips for how to be successful as an indie author. You'll want to revisit this episode a few times and take notes because Susan has more knowledge than could ever be packed into a single episode. Note: a few crucial seconds have been removed from this conversation to protect the identity of Susan's pen name.
Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent...
2019-01-111h 54
Self-Publishing with ALLiFringe Highlight: Should Indie Authors Go KDP Exclusive Or Go WideEp#66: This week we're showcasing the session between Pippa DaCosta and Susan Kaye Quinn. If you're wondering about the pros and cons of being exclusive with KDP or going wide with as many retailers as possible, our show hosts will explain which model works best in different scenarios. Susan is exclusively KDP and Pippa makes her books available in as many outlets as possible and they deliver insights and experience from both ends of the spectrum. Topics Covered in this Fringe Highlight Session: Perma-Free Book Promotion Strategy. Net Income on Kindle Select vs. Wide Distribution. Does...
2017-10-011h 04
Drishti Talk109: “A woman who can fight with a prosthetic leg”, with Saiswaroopa IyerSpecial guest & author [Saiswaroopa Iyer](https://www.amazon.in/Saiswaroopa-Iyer/e/B018KERMIA/) joins the show to talk about her latest book “ _Avishi”_ , self-publishing and the rise of Dharmic fiction.
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* Saiswaroopa Iyer on Amazon: [Abhaya](https://www.amazon.in/Abhaya-Legend-Diwali-Narakasura-Reimagined-ebook/dp/B018ITMZ3Y) (75% off right now) • [Avishi](https://www.amazon.in/Avishi-Vishpala-Rig-Veda-Reimagined-ebook/dp/B074MZV8MZ/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)
* [The time is right for a new literary genre—Dharmic Fiction](https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/the-time-is-right-for-a-new-literary-genre-dharmic-fiction)
* [Telugu Bhagvatam](http://www.telugubhagavatam.org)
* [Krishnavatara by K M Munshi](https://www.amazon.com/Krishnavatara-1-Magic-Flute-Dr-K-M-Munshi/dp/8172764634)
* [Debut authors, here’s why publ...
2017-09-2545 min
The Bestseller ExperimentEP37: Go For Launch | Susan Kaye QuinnIn the second part of our interview with Susan Kaye Quinn, we talk about how to launch your book, pre-orders, fan-service, promoting your books, the dark art of blurbs, the power of tropes and mythology. In this episode you will discover: -The ideal model for debut pre-orders. - How long you should promote your book for. - How to make your blurbs work harder. - And how to use tropes to satisfy your readers. Get your free ebook with advice and tips from million-selling authors at: http://www.bestsellerexperiment.com
2017-06-0242 min
The Bestseller ExperimentEP36: For Love Or Money | Susan Kaye QuinnSusan Kaye Quinn is not only a genuine rocket scientist, but she's also a bestselling indie author in fiction and non-fiction. She runs the incredible For Love Or Money Facebook group, a resource for indie authors to get help with all those questions you might otherwise be afraid to ask. This is Part One of a special two-parter. In this episode you will discover… Why you should be clear what your goals are Why you should formulate a five year plan to achieve those goals How you can make your advertising budget a revenue generator and no...
2017-05-2949 min
Relish The Full Audiobook That Keeps Thriller Fans Hooked.The Duality Bridge by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/196206to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Duality Bridge
Series: Singularity (Quinn), Book 2
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
Release date: 02-15-17
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 36 ratings
Genres: Dystopian Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
2017-02-1510h 43
Begin The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Best-Selling!The Legacy Human by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/196450to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Legacy Human
Series: Singularity (Quinn), Book 1
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 10-24-16
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 95 ratings
Genres: Dystopian Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
2016-10-2410h 05
The 21st Century Writer23: Susan Kaye Quinn and the indie author mindsetSusan Kaye Quinn is an author of science fiction and YA (and, under a secret pen name, romance!). She’s also the author of The Indie Author Survival Guide (a guide for new self-publishers to the indie publishing arena) and For Love Or Money (a guide for more experienced indie authors on how not to lose their minds).
She’s also lots of fun to talk to!
Susan highly recommends the book The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life by Thomas M. Sterner as an aid to developing your ability to focus on w...
2015-09-1356 min
Origin StoriesDiscovery at Ledi-GeraruHave you ever wondered what it's like to make a major fossil discovery? Arizona State University graduate student Chalachew Seyoum and professor Kaye Reed tell us their exciting story.
Seyoum was working as part of a team co-directed by Reed. While searching for hominid fossils at a site called Ledi-Geraru in the Afar region of Ethiopia, he found a fossil jaw sticking out of the 2.8 million year old sediment. That jaw turned out to be the earliest known fossil from our genus Homo. It was around 400,000 years older than any Homo fossil found before. The discovery was publishe...
2015-08-2615 min
Listen Legally to Popular Titles Full Audiobooks in Kids, Fables, Fairy Tales & MythsFaery Swap Audiobook by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/103 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Faery Swap Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Narrator: Mark Mullaney Format: Unabridged Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins Language: English Release date: 10-24-14 Publisher: Susan Kaye Quinn Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes Genres: Kids, Fables, Fairy Tales & Myths Publisher's Summary: Warrior faery princes can be very stubborn. Especially when they possess your body. Fourteen-year-old Finn just wants to keep his little sister out of Child Protective Services - an epic challenge with their parentally-missing-in-action dad moving them to England, near the famous Stonehenge rocks. Warrior...
2014-10-2402 min
Power-Up With The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Experience!Free Souls by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/196255to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Free Souls
Series: Mindjack, Book 3
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Kelli Shane
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 07-25-14
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 45 ratings
Genres: Dystopian Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
2014-07-258h 16
Dive Into A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Edge-Of-Your-Seat.Closed Hearts: (Book Two in the Mindjack Trilogy) by Susan Kaye QuinnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/199260to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Closed Hearts: (Book Two in the Mindjack Trilogy)
Series: Mindjack, Book 2
Author: Susan Kaye Quinn
Narrator: Kelli Shane
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 04-07-14
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 61 ratings
Genres: Paranormal
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2014-04-078h 29
pod peopleai Susan Kaye Quinnheya guys!!!
EDIT: this episode is only 51 minutes, i have no idea why it claims to be longer... we're trying to figure that out!
vic here.
this week we host our VERY FIRST guest!!!
and HOO BOY! what a guest!!!
Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of several YA novels.
LIFE, LIBERTY, and PURSUIT released by Omnific Publishing
and her self published MindJack series
OPEN MINDS
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2012-06-0800 min