Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures

Product Description 
Through speculative fiction, five interlocking novelettes explore the possible realities of our climate future.What is the future of our climate? Given that our summers now regularly feature Arctic heat waves and wildfire blood skies, polar vortex winters that reach all the way down to Texas, and “100-year” storms that hit every few months, it may seem that catastrophe is a done deal. As grim as things are, however, we still have options. Combining fiction and nonfiction and employing speculative tools for scholarly purposes, Our Shared Storm explores not just one potential climate future but five possible outcomes dependent upon our actions today. Written by speculative-fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson, Our Shared Storm features five overlapping fictions to employ a futurist technique called “scenarios thinking.” Rather than try to predict how history will unfold―picking one out of many unpredictable and contingent branching paths―it instead creates a set of futures that represent major trends or counterposed possibilities, based on a set of climate-modeling scenarios known as the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).The setting is the year 2054, during the Conference of the Parties global climate negotiations (a.k.a., The COP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each story features a common cast of characters, but with events unfolding differently for them―and human society―in each alternate universe. These five scenarios highlight the political, economic, and cultural possibilities of futures where investments in climate adaptation and mitigation promised today have been successfully completed, kicked down the road, or abandoned altogether. From harrowing to hopeful, these stories highlight the choices we must make to stabilize the planet.Our Shared Storm is an experiment in deploying practice-based research methods to explore the opportunities and challenges of using climate fiction to engage scientific and academic frameworks. 
 Review 
Hudson has found a way to strike together all the various facets of our rapidly changing climate future, sparking stories that are by turns, and often all at once, ingenious, energetic, provocative, and soulful. He is the face of this new movement in science fiction, and we’re lucky to have him. 
---Kim Stanley Robinson, \n. . . fans of William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson will savor this thoughtful, rigorous exploration of climate action. ― 
Publishers Weekly\nHudson’s innovative and exciting publication is, simultaneously, a consideration of the relationship between climate fiction and climate policy, a highly readable and teachable set of climate stories, and a critical intervention in what climate fiction is capable of achieving in the ‘real’ world. 
---Adeline Johns-Putra, Professor of Literature, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China, \nAndrew Dana Hudson's 
Our Shared Storm is a fascinating thought-experiment in imagining worlds to come. Through a set of common characters kaleidoscopically revealed, readers are granted perspectival narrative access to a skein of political, cultural, and philosophical views that, along with their attendant actions, will shape the planet for worse―or, perhaps, better. 
---Christopher Schaberg, author of Searching for the Anthropocene, 
 About the Author 
Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative-fiction writer, sustainability researcher, and narrative strategist. His stories have appeared in 
Slate Future Tense, 
Lightspeed Magazine, 
Vice Terraform, 
MIT Technology Review, 
Grist, and more, as well as in various books and anthologies. His nonfiction writing has appeared in 
Slate, among others.

Science & Math

Hudson, Andrew Dana

Earth Sciences

Fordham University Press

Review\nHudson has found a way to strike together all the various facets of our rapidly changing climate future, sparking stories that are by turns, and often all at once, ingenious, energetic, provocative, and soulful. He is the face of this new movement in science fiction, and we’re lucky to have him.---Kim Stanley Robinson\n. . . fans of William Gibson and Kim Stanley Robinson will savor this thoughtful, rigorous exploration of climate action. ― Publishers Weekly\nHudson’s innovative and exciting publication is, simultaneously, a consideration of the relationship between climate fiction and climate policy, a highly readable and teachable set of climate stories, and a critical intervention in what climate fiction is capable of achieving in the ‘real’ world.---Adeline Johns-Putra, Professor of Literature, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China\nAndrew Dana Hudson's Our Shared Storm is a fascinating thought-experiment in imagining worlds to come. Through a set of common characters kaleidoscopically revealed, readers are granted perspectival narrative access to a skein of political, cultural, and philosophical views that, along with their attendant actions, will shape the planet for worse―or, perhaps, better.---Christopher Schaberg, author of Searching for the Anthropocene\nThrough speculative fiction, five interlocking novelettes explore the possible realities of our climate future.\nWhat is the future of our climate? Given that our summers now regularly feature Arctic heat waves and wildfire blood skies, polar vortex winters that reach all the way down to Texas, and “100-year” storms that hit every few months, it may seem that catastrophe is a done deal. As grim as things are, however, we still have options. Combining fiction and nonfiction and employing speculative tools for scholarly purposes, Our Shared Storm explores not just one potential climate future but five possible outcomes dependent upon our actions today.\nWritten by speculative-fiction writer and sustainability researcher Andrew Dana Hudson, Our Shared Storm features five overlapping fictions to employ a futurist technique called “scenarios thinking.” Rather than try to predict how history will unfold―picking one out of many unpredictable and contingent branching paths―it instead creates a set of futures that represent major trends or counterposed possibilities, based on a set of climate-modeling scenarios known as the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).\nThe setting is the year 2054, during the Conference of the Parties global climate negotiations (a.k.a., The COP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each story features a common cast of characters, but with events unfolding differently for them―and human society―in each alternate universe. These five scenarios highlight the political, economic, and cultural possibilities of futures where investments in climate adaptation and mitigation promised today have been successfully completed, kicked down the road, or abandoned altogether. From harrowing to hopeful, these stories highlight the choices we must make to stabilize the planet.\nOur Shared Storm is an experiment in deploying practice-based research methods to explore the opportunities and challenges of using climate fiction to engage scientific and academic frameworks.

Artificial intelligence. Virtual reality. Genetic engineering. These and other technologies are changing the way we live--and the way we work. What will our jobs be like in a future marked by such radical change? In Working Futures, science fiction authors share possible answers to that question. From surveillance auditors to AI chaperones to high-tech trash collectors, the workers found in these speculative stories provide a glimpse of what our future might look like-- perhaps sooner than we think. With stories by Keyan Bowes, Katharine Dow, Timothy Geigner, Liam Hogan, Christopher Alex Hooton, Andrew Dana Hudson, Randy Lubin, Mike Masnick, Ross Pruden, N. R. M. Roshak, Holly Schofield, and James Yu.

Working Futures: 14 Speculative Stories About The Future Of Work

Literature & Fiction

Masnick, Mike

Bowes, Keyan

Dow, Katharine

Geigner, Timothy

Hogan, Liam

Hooton, Christopher Alex

Roshak, N. R. M.

Schofield, Holly

Yu, James

Short Stories & Anthologies

Independently published

This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems--even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.

Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters

Nikel, Wendy

World Weaver Press

A collection of inspiring, funny, dark, mysterious, tragic, romantic, dramatic, upbeat and fantastical short stories.\nThese 24 stories are written by a variety of authors, with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there.\nThe stories are diverse in style, ranging from whodunnits to sci-fi, romance to family drama, comedy to tragedy, and cover a range of solution types from high-tech to nature-based solutions, to more systemic aspects relating to our culture and political economy.

No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save our Planet

Bacigalupi, Paolo

Lord, Nancy

Foster, Sara

ROBINSON, Kim Stanley

Burt, Brian

Hanson-Kahn, Matthew

Barrage, Rasha

Hastie, Martin

Baden, D.A.

Habitat Press

Lo stato solare (Italian Edition)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Future Fiction

La settima antologia annuale di Future Fiction include dieci storie che provengono da sette paesi e sono state tradotte da quattro lingue diverse. Le narrazioni scelte esplorano temi fondamentali per il nostro tempo come l’Antropocene – ovvero i cambiamenti climatici causati da determinati comportamenti umani, ci proiettano in ambientazioni e luoghi futuribili, tra case intelligenti, foreste per lo smaltimento dei rifiuti e una Shanghai minacciata da fiamme misteriose, e infine ci introducono alcuni esempi di genere solarpunk, il fenomeno emergente nella fantascienza contemporanea globale: questo genere mette in scena un mondo dove abbiamo fatto la cosa giusta, dove gli effetti peggiori dell’emergenza climatica sono stati scongiurati e dove si attribuisce un valore sociale a chi si prende cura dei nostri sistemi di sopravvivenza in un’economia circolare più interessata a tecnologie di resilienza e di collaborazione che di estrazione e competizione. 
La raccolta include sia autrici e autori affermati come Vandana Singh, S.B Divya e Francesco Verso, che voci nuove nel panorama internazionale come Gu Shi, Andrew Dana Hudson, Chen Qian e Krystyna Chodorowska.\nINDICE 
ANTROPOCENE 
Madre Oceano di Vandana Singh (India) 
Poesie e terre distanti di Gu Shi (Cina) 
Il meteo bugiardo di Krystyna Chodorowska (Polonia)\nLUOGHI FUTURIBILI 
L’emovilla di Ivan Naumov (Russia) 
Nella foresta di smaltimento in biosicurezza di Santiago Belluco (Brasile) 
Shanghai di carta di Chen Qian (Cina)\nSOLARPUNK 
Il guardiano del faro di Andrew Dana Hudson (Stati uniti) 
La nave verde di Francesco Verso (Italia) 
Microbiota e le masse di S.B. Divya (India/Stati uniti) 
Somaterra di Ciro Faienza (Italia/Stati uniti)

Storie dal domani 7 (Italian Edition)

Children's Books

Singh, Vandana

Divya, S.B.

Shi, Gu

Verso, Francesco

Naumov, Ivan

Faienza, Ciro

Chodorowska, Krystyna

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