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solarshades.club publishes once a month with updates on my work, essays on the future, and occasional fiction. It’s free and the best way to stay in touch.

Books

Absence: A Novel — coming May 5, 2026 from Soho Press. Preorder now!

Northern Lights: Four Energy Futures of the North (“Windy City,” “The Wild Tour,” “The Stillout,” “Spring Fires Day“) — Future Energy Stories, Luleå University of Technology, 2024.

Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures — Fordham University Press (Kindle, Nook, paperback, exclusive hardcover), 2022.

Lo Stato Solare (edited by Francesco Verso and translated by Stefano Ternavasio) — An Italian-language collection of my short fiction, published by Future Fiction (paperback, Kindle), 2021.

The Games That Got Us Through — a visitation of Emerge Festival 2016 (in collaboration with Adam Flynn and Bryce Hidysmith).

Short Fiction

“The Love Pyramid: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy” — Escape Pod, 2025. First and second in the series. Writeup.

“An Omodest Proposal” — Lightspeed Magazine, 2025. Podcast. Writeup.

“The Flesh Trade” — solarshades.club, 2025.

“The Weather Out There” — Long Now Ideas, 2024. Companion essay: “Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It?“

“The Concept Shoppe: A Rocky Cornelius Consultancy” — Escape Pod podcast, 2024. First in the series. Writeup.

“Family Business” (with Corey J. White) — Analog Magazine, 2023.

“The Uncool Hunters” — Escape Pod podcast, 2023.

“Any Percent” — Giganotosaurus, 2023. Winner of the 63rd Swarthout Award.

“The Co2lector” — Open Air: A Carbon Removal Collective, 2022.

“May Day” — solarshades.club, 2022.

“Boomtown” (with Corey J. White) — Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, Twelfth Planet Press, 2022.

“The Painter and the Flatiron” — Cities in a Wild Garden: Stories of the Nature of Cities, Volume 2, 2021.

“Stowaways” — Lightspeed Magazine, 2021.

“A Smell of Jet Fuel” — Lightspeed Magazine, 2021. Author spotlight.

“Solarshades” — Cities of Light, plus response essays, 2021.

“The Mammoth Steps” — Terraform, 2018. Edited and reprinted in Multispecies Cities (paperback, Kindle, ebook, iTunes, Nook), 2021. Blog post. Reprinted in Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn. Reprinted with introduction in Long Now Ideas, 2022.

“Your Mind is the Superfund Site” (with C. Y. Ballard) — Lightspeed Magazine, 2020. Audio version. Author spotlight.

“In the Storm, a Fire” (with Jay Springett) — And Lately, The Sun (Kindle), 2020. Longlisted for the BSFA 2020 Short Fiction Award. Chanticleer International Book Awards Short 2020 Story Award semifinalist. Reprinted in solarshades.club.

“The Lizard and the Rat” — StarShipSofa podcast, 2020.

“Voice of Their Generation” — Lightspeed Magazine, 2020. Audio version. Author spotlight.

“Zooming” — MIT Technology Review, 2020. Audio version via Curio.

“Black Ice City” — Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (paperback, Kindle, ebook, iTunes, Nook), 2020. Blog post. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

“A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar” — Slate Future Tense, 2019. Response essay. Radio interview.

“The Chaperone” — Working Futures: 14 Speculative Fiction Stories About the Future of Work (Kindle, paperback), 2019. Podcast discussion. Reprinted in The New Accelerator.

“Under The Grid” — The Weight of Light, 2019. Reprinted in Grist. Podcast review.

“Under This Rock” — Little Blue Marble, 2019. Included in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis anthology (Kindle, iTunes).

The Art of World War C — speculative propaganda from America’s climate mobilization (interview).

“The Lighthouse Keeper” — in Energy Overlays, a book of designs from the Land Art Generator Initiative‘s 2018 Melbourne design competition. Translated into Italian and included in Solarpunk: Come ho imparato ad amare il futuro, edited by Francesco Verso, 2020.

“Mend and Make Do” — runner up, Writing The Future health sci-fi contest, 2017.

“Sunshine State” (with Adam Flynn) — winner, Everything Change 2016 climate fiction contest.