Newsletter
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Fiction
Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures — Out now from Fordham University Press! Kindle, Nook, paperback, exclusive hardcover!

“Any Percent” — Giganotosaurus, 2023.
“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.
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.
“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. Reprint 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.
“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 (writeup, 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.
The Games That Got Us Through — a visitation of Emerge Festival 2016 (in collaboration with Adam Flynn and Bryce Hidysmith).
Nonfiction
On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk — Medium, 2015. Translated into Italian and included in Solarpunk: Come ho imparato ad amare il futuro, edited by Francesco Verso, 2020.
Zero Emissions Is Not Enough. We Need Climate Repair. — Jacobin, 2022.
“Business is Booming, Nevermind the Climate,” a Conversation with Sarah Blake — Climate Fiction Writers League newsletter, 2022
Interview with Amy Brady — Burning Worlds newsletter, 2022.
Speculating on our Climate Future — interview in ASU News, 2022.
Nothing Here But Five Climate Futures — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2022.
Make It So: The Clippy Theory of Star Trek Action — Sci-Fi TV Interfaces, 2022.
Our Shared Storm: An Interview with Andrew Dana Hudson — Solarpunk Magazine, 2022
What can science fiction tell us about the future of artificial intelligence policy? (with Ed Finn and Ruth Wylie) — AI & SOCIETY, 2021.
Solarpunk: A new anthology of speculative fiction counters dystopias with hopeful futures — written interview response in Scroll.In, 2021
Talking to Terrestrials — World Weaver Press Blog, 2021.
Rendering the Living — Medium, 2020.
Normalcy — Medium, 2020. Reprinted in Oasis: In Isolation, 2020.
Moving the Beaches, Moving the Seas — World Weaver Press Blog, 2020.
They Really Are Reptoids — Oasis #6: Superstition, 2019.
What does it mean to BE a solarpunk? — Solarpunks.net, 2019.
Nothing Here But Anti-Police Insurgency — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2021.
Nothing Here But Us Solar Powered Punks — Nothing Here newsletter guest co-edit, 2019.
Why Climate Fiction? — Imaginary Papers, 2019. Reprinted in the Climate Fiction Writers League newsletter, 2023.
Lessons from the History of Environmentalism (as part the DSA Ecosocialist Working Group Research Subcommittee) — Socialist Forum, 2019.
Ghost Stories in the Machine — Imaginary Papers, 2018.
Tech & the left interview #3 — Fully Automated Luxury Communism Newsletter, 2018.
How to Fix Avengers: Infinity War — Medium, 2018.
When Disaster Is Always Looming (with Milan Shrestha) — Slate, 2018.
My Dumb Tweet About Owl Orgasms and Socialism Went Viral — Slate, 2017.
The Future Is Also Messier Than You Think — Drawn Futures: Arizona 2045, 2017.
Can Sports Survive Our Environmental Crisis? — Slate, 2016.
Speaking
Carbon Punk: Expanding our sense of CDR possibility through Speculative Fiction — Open Air Collective, 2022.
Climate Futures and Post-Normal Fiction — The Fire These Times Podcast, 2022.
Post Normal Fiction — Near Future Laboratory Podcast, 2022.
Author lays out plan to tackle climate change through 5 hypothetical futures — KJZZ, The Show, 2022.
Episode 26: Our Shared Storm with Andrew Dana Hudson & Book reviews with Alan Bailey — If This Goes On (Don’t Panic) podcast, 2022.
Solarpunk and Speculative Futurism — Carbotnic Podcast, 2022.
The Political Economy of Solarpunk — The Fire These Times Podcast, 2022.
‘Cities Of Light’: ASU Project Combines Data, Essays, Fiction To Explore Climate Change’s Long-Term Effects — KJZZ, The Show, 2021.
Solarpunk: New Seeds from the Ashes of Cyberpunk — FutureCon panel, 2020.
Come Internet With Me — pilot episode guest, 2020.
Optimism and the Futures of Sci-Fi Worlds — LockDownCon panel, 2020.
Science Fiction Writer Explores Artificial Intelligence and Religion — KJZZ, The Show, 2020.
Midsommar vs The Buddha — Permanently Moved guest episode, 2019.
Interview on Working Futures — Techdirt Podcast Episode 231, 2019.
SolarPunk and going Post-Post-Apocalyptic — re:publica 2018. Open Transcript.
The Climate Fiction Episode — The Sustainability Review Podcast, 2018.
Low Carbon Leisure in Solarpunk Futures — re:publica Sequencer Los Angeles 2018.
What Sci-Fi Futures Can (and Can’t) Teach Us About AI Policy — fiction panel (starts 1:44:38), 2019.
Limited Engagement 116 — interview on Holum Press and Oasis (starts 0:13:15), 2019.
Social
@andrewdhudson — Twitter
@andrewdanahudson — Instagram
Ignore All Warnings — tumblr
Collaborations
The Future of Ageing in Smart Environments
Oasis — Holum Press
Imaginary College — Center for Science and the Imagination
A.I. Policy Futures — Center for Science and the Imagination and Open Technology Institute
@DSAM4A — Democratic Socialists for Medicare for All