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Ecolution: Solarpunk Narratives to Transform Reality

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English
Publishers
Future Fictionn (15 July 2024)
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0.23 KG
Publication Date
15/07/2024
ISBN-10
883207799X
Pages
211 pages
ISBN-13
9788832077995
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12.7 x 1.35 x 20.32 cm
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9788832077995
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Francesco Verso (Author)
Francesco Verso (Bologna, 1973) is one of the most relevant voices of Italian Science Fiction and editor of Future Fiction. Over the last 12 years, he has won many SF awards (including the Best Publisher Award by the European SF Society in 2019) and for 7 years he’s the editor of the multicultural project Future Fiction. His books include: Antidoti umani, e-Doll (Urania Award 2009), Nexhuman (Odissea and Italia Award 2013), Bloodbusters (Urania Award 2015) and I camminatori (made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land). His novels Nexhuman and Bloodbusters – translated in English by Sally McCorry – have been published in the US, UK, and soon in China with the translation of Zhang Fan and Shaoyan Hu for the publisher Bofeng Culture. His short stories appeared in magazines like Robot, MAMUT, International Speculative Fiction #5, Chicago Quarterly Review #20, Words Without Borders, Future Affairs Administration and international anthologies such as A Dying Earth (Flame Tree Press) and The Best of World SF (Head of Zeus). Together with Bill Campbell he has co-edited Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction (Rosarium Publishing, 2018). He has also edited a SF anthology called What's the Future Like? for Guangzhou Blue Ocean Press that has been distributed to Chinese high schools and universities in 2019. He’s a public speaker and panelist to many SF Cons across the world, including WorldCons, EuroCons, and Chinese SF Conventions. In 2020 he has organized the FutureCon an online SF convention with 67 panelists coming from more than 25 countries. From 2014 he works as editor of Future Fiction, a multicultural project, scouting and publishing the best SF in translation from 10 languages and more than 20 countries with authors like James P. Kelly, Ian McDonald, Ken Liu, Xia Jia, Liu Cixin, Chen Qiufan, Pat Cadigan, Olivier Paquet, Vandana Singh, Lavie Tidhar, Fabio Fernandes, Ekaterina Sedia and others. He lives in Rome with his wife and daughter. He may be found online at www.futurefiction.org.Read more about this authorRead less about this author
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Set in the same narrative universe as The Roamers, the solarpunk stories collected in Ecolution were written by Francesco Verso over the last four years. Inside the volume, which is enriched by illustrations by the students of the School of Comics of Rome, you will find an android capable of weaving “sea silk” in Sardinia, ailanthus trees that occupy the entire Porta di Roma shopping mall, bizarre phosphorus-vegetal lighting experiments, a skilled “nanosmith” expert in the art of Sichuan pepper programming in China; terraforming projects to house climate migrants rejected in the Mediterranean Sea, and native bio-inspired solutions against land expropriation around Lake Baikal in Russia.

“Each story in the anthology is an ecological solution to the problems of cities and also a suggestion to ‘work with’ rather than ‘work against’ nature. In moments of crisis humans always acted according to the scheme of escape.

Are temperatures rising? I’m moving north. Is food decreasing? Change continent.

This behavior was successful as long as humanity lived in hunter-gatherer tribes. The moment we became sedentary, cities were founded, we need to change our adaptive response.

Like vegetables, cities cannot escape. It’s time to risk new behaviors and it is more likely that the people "on the margins" of the city will abandon their usual responses to seek innovative remedies to environmental changes.

” - Clelia FarrisFrancesco Verso (born 1973 in Bologna) is a Science Fiction writer and editor. His novels have been translated into various languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Chinese.

His works include: Antidoti umani, e-Doll, Nexhuman, Zendroide (with Duan Ziqi), Bloodbusters, Futurespotting, and the first Italian and European solarpunk novel The Roamers (consisting of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land). He has won three Europe Awards, two Urania Awards, two Italy Awards, an Odissea Award, and a Galaxy Award for the promotion of Chinese Science Fiction.

In 2014, he founded Future Fiction, an indie press publishing the best Science Fiction in the world, translated from 14 languages and more than 40 different countries, in the form of books, comics, and audiobooks. Since 2019, he works as the Creative Director of the Fishing Fortress Science Fiction Academy in Chongqing, China.

Table of ContentsForeword by Andrew Dana HudsonSolarpunk: new seeds from the ashes of the futureThe Sea WeaverThe NutatorsGreenglimmerThe Maestro of Small ThingsThe Green ShipEcolutionHow Green Is The City of Clelia FarrisInterview with Francesco Verso by Arielle SaiberCover illustration by Marzia Cardinale. .

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