Solarpunk is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question ‘what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there? That was the challenge put to the writers, to show #13 me a happier future than the one that grim-dark, post-apocapytic that is so popular today.Here, the gritty present gives way to the hopeful future, whether your future lies in Seattle, Venus, or some distance colony hidden from the dark ...

For many of us, those opening words “Captain’s Log…” were our introduction to our science fiction dreams. Voyage to explore strange, new worlds, seek out new life, and boldly go. What will we find there when we go? What dangers will we confront? Who will survive? And who will not?Twelve authors explore what these words mean to them in stories ranging from the silly to the sublime.Join us for the first exciting issue in a new quarterly speculative fiction magazine.We...

Moles.Seriously?Yes. Mostly seriously.Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food.Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition.From silly to sublime, this anthology takes you on a wild ride, where the only rule was that it had to include moles. And to be entertaining.Come revel with us.

Embark on a flight of discovery with ten stories from the fertile mind of M.E Owen, including:A group of extraterrestrials finds an exciting new venue for date night—Earth.A Seattle bar houses a clandestine interplanetary waystation nicknamed the "Vortex of Hell."An alien discovers that the small child of the powerful human she was sent to observe may hold the key to initiating peaceful relations.A generation ship's engineer wakes up as a clone o...

Zion Station. Slowly decaying in a backwater of human space, now only useful as support for the methane mining industry that operates in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet below.But Zion harbors secrets that could topple the Consortium, Earth's oppressive, genocidal empire.Zion's saga continues, as Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia and her friends continue to protect those secrets with their lives and work toward bringing down the Consortium.The stories within b...

Old, poorly maintained, and sliding into decrepitude, Zion Station orbits a gas giant planet in a backwater of human space. Originally purposed for scientific research, its scientists are long gone, leaving dusty closed-off sections of the station behind. These days it supports the methane mining industry for the planet below.But Zion has secrets. Big secrets. The type of secrets that may just topple an oppressive, genocidal empire.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia knows th...

The life of the independent trucker in space. Hauling things and having adventures while just trying to make your payments to the bank. At least until something goes desperately wrong.

Forced to take a vacation, Zion Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia joins Skip and his Far Trails crew on what she thinks is a random cargo run. Grumpy and short-tempered on the second anniversary of Garcia's death, she just wants to be left alone. Instead, she finds herself on a ship full of idealistic hippies, who are traveling to a hidden ecological preserve planet.But sabotage on the ship and a murder on the colony derail Jones's hope of an uneventful vacation. And as sh...

A docked cargo ship run by an autonomous, non-sentient AI refuses admittance and instead threatens an attack against Zion's neural net.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia, Far Trails' navigator/muscle Cray Solnik, and tech goddess Selma Zarvos, along with a cloned copy of Max—Zion's rogue AI—must find a way aboard, stop the shipboard AI, and figure out what the seventeen thousand not-quite-human life signatures in the holds are.They discover that the stakes for Zion ...

Pilar Jones y Garcia, Zion Station's police chief, still mourns her husband's death years later. She, and everyone else with a radio, heard his last transmission moments before his small ship incinerated in the toxic atmosphere of the gas giant below.But Emilio Garcia y Jones had secrets that he kept even from the woman he adored. Secrets that hunted him down, forcing him to make the hardest decision of his life.Join us for a story set before the Consortium's AI genocide, w...

This third volume of Zion Station stories brings us old friends and new, human and not. The newly born and the unfathomably ancient.Alien cultures found, lost, and saved. Engineering wonders big and small.Ships and stations, pirates and sabotage, danger and bloodshed. Life-changing decisions against a backdrop of uncertainty.Relationships rekindled, new, and fraying.And secrets. From the highly personal to the far-reaching secrets that could take down a geno...

Zion Station. Decrepit, nearly forgotten on the edge of human space, and harboring a secret that could shift the course of humanity.Eight months ago, the Earth-based Consortium committed genocide against the AIs, destroying thousands of sentient beings, along with hundreds of thousands with the potential.Only six humans know that Zion Station's sentient AI, Max, survived the purge.Even as they rush to complete Max's move from the Consortium-built neural network to Z...