Solar Imaginings
Published on 2023-03-11
Issue Details
The future we will live in is the future we imagine today. More and more, our fiction goes to dystopian, post-apocalyptic realities, environmental disasters, and social catastrophes. Warning fiction has its place, but an unending drumbeat of doom is hardly aspirational. Today, what genres show the way to the world we want, not just the one we want to avoid?
Featured Stories
Welcome to Issue 11 of DreamForge Anvil
In this issue we enjoy a bowl of soup on the 87th floor of a utopian arcology, take a ride in a car that knows where we need to go, not just where we want to be, and spend time on an orbital ranch whe...
Flybys, Launch Windows, and Selfies with the Earth and Moon: The Artemis I Flight, by Robert Harpold
This article, the draft of which was written days after the Artemis I flight, gives an idea of the amount of work that went into the entire Artemis I mission by focusing on the work of one team: the t...
Write the Future You Want to Live In, by Ana Sun
Ana Sun delivers a thoughtful and thorough look at Solarpunk. How do positive visions of the future affect both scientists and citizens, designers and engineers? Can fiction highlight solutions to env...
Wulf Moon's SUPER SECRETS: Magic Sword
The concept of a weapon of power wielded by the hero of a tale to defeat the antagonist or opposing force in story or myth is not new, but it takes many forms, some subtle and some surprising. When yo...
Science Fiction, Cli-Fi
Three Postcards from Another Earth, by Shanna Yetman
As our civilization grows, it will inevitably stress the planet on which we make our home. Of course, humans are not ones to slow down, pull back, and ease up. When we finally use our immense powers t...
Science Fiction, SolarPunk, Humorous
Another Day on the Orbital Ranch, by David Hankins
In a future where farming and ranching has moved to vast orbital habitats, there may be new problems, like how to ethically treat advancing A.I., but old problems remain. There is sewage to back up, a...
Another Day on the Orbital Ranch Line Edits
“Another Day on the Orbital Ranch” was initially outlined by the author during a DreamForge Webinar on “Writing Solar Punk and Hope Punk” in July 2022. David volunteered for a live critique du...
Science Fiction, Cli-Fi
A Bowl of Soup on the 87th Floor, by Kai Holmwood
A bowl of warm soup can soothe the soul, but can a special recipe bring a species of tree back from the brink of extinction? Curried carrot and kumara soup finished with pea shoots and a vibrant basil...
Science Fiction, Cli-Fi
Petrichor, by Richard A Shury
Petrichor is the pleasant, earthy scent that often accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. Where today’s civilization often turns its instrumentality to the extraction o...
Science Fiction, SolarPunk
Like Stars Daring To Shine, by Somto Ihezue
This reprint originally appeared in the July 2022 issue of Fireside magazine and we are proud to give it a new home. In this tale, Somto Ihezue reminds us that our growing civilization is not the only...
Science Fiction, Robots & AI
Lost in Intuition, Amara Mesnik
A delightful tale from a first-time author, wherein a driverless car is empowered to take you not where you want to go, but where you need to go. While every advance presents opportunities for dystopi...
Science Fiction
The Jewel of the Waves, the Diadem of the Sky, by Jared Oliver Adams
As in all ages, the future will combine utopian and dystopian aspects, and those in the Department of Investigations are more likely to deal with the dark rather than the light. But when a missing per...
Thank You Anvil Issue 11
We have so many people to thank! Founders, Kickstarter Heroes, Contributors, Friends, Family, and First Line Readers.
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