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About Sarena Ulibarri
Sarena Ulibarri is a short fiction author and the Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press, which publishes fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal books. She is a graduate of the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers' Workshop at UCSD and earned an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to the magazines and anthologies listed here, you can also read her work at places like Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, DreamForge Magazine, NewMyths.com and more. She currently lives in New Mexico with two corgis and a pet husband. Er, wait. Strike that, reverse it. No, still not right.
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Blog postThis year has been a hell of a decade, right? I published three short stories this year, plus one non-fiction essay. On the off-chance that you feel inspired to nominate my work, or the stories in the anthology I edited, for whatever awards or lists you might be nominating for, here's the list of my 2020 accomplishments. "The Dragon's Lake" published in Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, and Dragons, February 2020
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Blog postSamuel Peralta's "Future Chronicles" anthologies are always fantastic collections, and I was thrilled to be invited to participate in this one, especially after I leaned I would be sharing a table of contents with authors such as Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, and Jake Kerr. It's actually my second one with Jake—we were in the same issue of Lightspeed years ago. I've never been much of a video gamer, but I've long been obsessed with virtual reality, and that's the ty3 years ago Read more
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Blog postMy solarpunk western story "The Spiral Ranch" is part of the Founders Issue of DreamForge Magazine, a new pro-level science fiction and fantasy market devoted to optimistic speculative fiction. They even commissioned original illustrations for my story! DreamForge launches on February 14, 2019, and they're currently running a Kickstarter to fund their next several issues. The Founders Issue also includes new stories from Steven Brust, Jane Lindskold, Lauren C. Teffeau, and more.3 years ago Read more
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Blog postI enjoyed the film Halloween (2018) far more than I expected to, but one aspect of it continued to bother me after I left the theater: the film’s focus on guns. Many films and TV shows use guns, but they're usually either just props/tools, or they're presented as glorified extensions of the action hero. Something about this presentation felt different than either of those. “It’s kind of NRA propaganda,” I joked to my husband on the drive home, and we talked about how Laurie was a model conserva4 years ago Read more
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Blog postFrom January 1, 2019 to March 1, 2019, I will be accepting submissions for an anthology of optimistic science fiction stories set in winter—specifically, solarpunk stories, which means stories that engage with climate change, renewable energies, or other environmental issues through an optimistic lens. This will be a followup to my anthology Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, which took the same approach for stories set in summer.
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Blog postThis book was originally being marketed as cyberpunk, but the publishers, Angry Robot, switched over to calling it solarpunk just a couple of weeks before release. It is definitely both: it has the cyberpunk technology of the neural implant, which is sort of like an instant messenger in your brain, controlled by eye movements, that also allows you to feel the emotions of the people you're connected to. It also has the fast-paced race-against-the-clock feel of cyberpunk, and the focus on informat4 years ago Read more
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Blog post"Chrysalis in Sunlight" is about two survivors of an alien invasion—one a veteran and one a civilian—who have to road trip from Denver to San Diego for treatment for a condition caused by exposure to alien microbes. I called this my "solarpunk Don Quixote" story while I was writing early drafts, though I don't know if it's actually the best example of solarpunk, and the homage to The War of the Worlds is probably more obvious than the Don Quixote connection. The story is ambi4 years ago Read more
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Blog postMarian Womack was one of the amazing authors I had the privilege of spending six weeks with at the Clarion Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers Workshop in 2014. I first met her about a month before Clarion started, while my husband and I were visiting Spain. It was great to get off the regular tourist routes in Madrid, and also to get to know one of my classmates a bit better before the craziness of Clarion began. During the workshop, I was always impressed with her lush prose and gothic-influen4 years ago Read more
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Blog postClaudie Arseneault was actually the first person to introduce me to the term solarpunk (a genre I've been rambling non-stop about ever since), through the call for submissions to her solarpunk dragons anthology Wings of Renewal. I've been following her career ever since, and it turns out she's just an all-around good person and awesome writer whom I'm glad to have encountered.
Today, I've invited Claudie onto my blog to talk about her new fantasy novel Baker Thief.
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Blog postLike a lot of writers, I have many random notes for story ideas, most of which go nowhere or sit in a notebook for years before they actually become a story. "Under a Rock" started as one of those: I had the idea of an inexplicable gigantic tooth showing up in someone's backyard, and them charging admission to see it, a la "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings." I plucked the idea out of my notebook after seeing an anthology call that had something to do with sharks and dinosau4 years ago Read more
Titles By Sarena Ulibarri
In this title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles series of speculative fiction anthologies - created by USA Today bestselling author Samuel Peralta - eleven authors break the rules in worlds of gaming adventure!
The Gamer Chronicles features stories by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning authors Ken Liu (Star Wars: The Legend of Luke Skywalker), Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author Seanan McGuire (Every Heart a Doorway), plus nine more of today's top authors in speculative and science fiction.
The game is on!
REVIEWS
★★★★★
"The best place to discover new SF authors, I think, is any of the anthologies coming from Samuel Peralta"
-- Hugh Howey, NY Times bestselling author of Wool
★★★★★
"A powerful new voice in speculative fiction"
--Nick Webb, USA Today bestselling author of the Legacy Fleet trilogy
ABOUT
Created by Samuel Peralta - series editor and a Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy notable author in his own right - The Future Chronicles is the #1 bestselling anthology series that brings together work from visionary new voices and from the grandmasters of modern speculative fiction.
Its unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes - A.I., time travel, dragons, robots, aliens, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday - has made it one of the most acclaimed anthology series of the digital era.
“Contains some real gems.” -Publishers Weekly
“Thoughtful and compelling.” -Stony Brook Press
A haunted father who discovers a place where incomplete things—and people—are made whole. A mischievous satyr who hatches a plan to set loose chaos on a global scale. A workaholic witch in search of her kitty companion. Invasive technology to rewrite the human brain. Dragon slayers. Zombies. Time travelers. Ice skaters.
These twenty short stories stretch across multiple universes and beyond death—and yet, they remain intimate, personal, emotional. They demonstrate the strength of the human spirit to find hope and seek a better tomorrow in even the darkest times.
A selection of the best speculative fiction from DreamForge and Space & Time literary magazines, these are the stories we need today as we struggle through a pandemic, divisive politics, rampant misinformation, a belligerent defiance of facts and science, and new technologies that are already spiraling beyond our control.
Read, my friends… and take hope.
This short story anthology includes:
Answered Prayers By Scott Edelman
Pioneer By Mark Gallacher
The Ghost of a Smile By John Jos. Miller
The Spiral Ranch By Sarena Ulibarri
An Infinite Number By David Amburgey
Sing! & Remember By Lauren C. Teffeau
A Sip of Pombé By Gustavo Bondoni
Born from Memory By Jane Lindskold
Tea with Gibbons By Tyler Tork
The Weight of Mountains By L. Deni Colter
Sapiens By Davide Mana
The Dead Don’t Dream By Gordon Linzner
Collecting Violet By Austin Gragg
Humani By John Palisano
Joy of Life By Alessandro Manzetti
Artifact By Jonathan Maberry
The Feline, the Witch, and the Universe By Jennifer Shelby
Hands of a Toolmaker By Eric Del Carlo
A Farewell to Worms By John Linwood Grant
A Glass Darkly By Ian Rogers
On the subway, during lunch, or even under the fluorescent glow of your cubical—there is no escape! Now your slow descent into madness can follow you through the day, as well as the night. The WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS ANTHOLOGY is the first ever H.P. Lovecraft inspired collection created specifically for readers on the go. All 33 spine-chilling tales are concentrated bites of terror which include works by Greg Stolze (Delta Green), Nick Mamatas (Shotguns v. Cthulhu), Tim Pratt (Marla Mason), Dennis Detwiller (Delta Green), Greg Van Eekhout (The Boy at the End of the World), A.C. Wise (Future Lovecraft), David Tallerman (Giant Thief), Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Future Lovecraft), John R. Fultz (Seven Princes), Chad Fifer (The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast).
"All about that moment I love, the moment where something approaches. The moment where you close your eyes and hope it goes away. It will. But there’ll be another story right behind it. And another. And another." -Alasdair Stuart, host of the PSEUDOPOD podcast.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction by Alasdair Stuart.
"Iden-Inshi" by Greg Stolze
"Pushing Back" by J.C. Hemphill
"Nation of Disease: The Rise & Fall of a Canadian Legend" by Jonathan Sharp
"When We Change" by Mason Ian Bundschuh
"Nutmeat" by Martin Hill Ortiz
"The Last Tweet" by Charles Black
"Secrets In Storage" by Tim Pratt & Greg Van Eekhout
"The Well" by Tim Jeffreys
"The Neon Morgue" by Nathan Wunner
"The Deep" by Corissa Baker
"Fear And Loathing In Innsmouth: Richard Nixon's Revenge" by Jason Andrew
"My Friend Fishfinger By Daisy, Age 7" by David Tallerman
"Chasing Sunset" by A.C. Wise
"The Thing With Onyx Eyes" by Stephen Brown
"I Do The Work Of The Bone Queen" by John R. Fultz
"Suck It Up, Get It Done" by Brandon Barrows
"The Substance In The Sound" by W.B. Stickel
"Stone City, Old As Immeasurable Time" by Kelda Crich
"Hideous Interview With Brief Man" by Nick Mamatas
"The Sea, Like Glass Unbroken" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"The Decorative Water Feature Of Nameless Dread" by James Brogden
"Henry" by Lance Axt
"My Stalk" by Aaron J. French
"Give Me That Old Time Religion" by Lee Finney
"Afraid Of Dobermans" by Chad Fifer
"Leviathan" by Nicholas Almand
"Horrorscope" by Charles Black
"The Jar Of Aten-Hor" by Kat Rocha
"The Floor" by Jeff Provine
"Waiting" by Dennis Detwiller
"Other People's Houses" by Sarena Ulibarri
"You Will Never Be The Same" by Erica Satifka
"Death Wore Greasepaint" by Josh Finney
Gritty, graceful, commonsense or whimsical, these twenty tales probe at how we could build a working world using the resources available to us - the natural, the social, the political, and the technological.
Some of these stories invite readers to bask in the warmth of a bright tomorrow, from tree dwellings in India, to restoration projects in Milano, to rewilded suburbs in the East of Australia. Other stories burn with spirit in the face of adversity: smallholders in Botswana adjust to international treaties; gamers tackle reality using virtual tools. And there are shadows, too, in tech suburbs where you can buy eco-cigarettes, or on tree plantations where family members won't toe the line.
And Lately, The Sun includes the work of both award-winning and emerging authors. Stories by Vrinda Baliga, Dabilo M. Mokobi, Eileen Haley, Illimani Ferreira, Holly Schofield, Sarena Ulibarri, Tais Teng, Derek Des Anges, Eric Del Carlo, Andrew Dana Hudson, Jay Springett, Lauri Kubuitsile, Kristen Schroeder, Adam Berman, Domnica Radulescu, Sofia Mariah, Philip Berry, Andrew Grell, Commando Jungendstil, Tales From The EV Studio, PSC Willis, and Jacob Ashton.
Each story is like drawing a card from the deck--you never know what it might reveal.
Featuring stories by Sara Dobie Bauer, Greg Bechtel, Beth Cato, Eliza Chan, Kevin Cockle, Sara Cleto, J.G. Formato, Chadwick Ginther, Joseph Halden, Gabrielle Harbowy, Jim C. Hines, Diana Hurlburt, L.S. Johnson, Dan Koboldt, C.S. MacCath, Susan MacGregor, Cat McDonald, Annie Neugebauer, Alexandra Seidel, Angela Slatter, Sarena Ulibarri, Brittany Warman and BD Wilson.
Sea Glass Harvest, by Bear Kiosk
The Changeling, by R. Rozakis
The Maiden Voyage of the Ariona, by Dale W. Glaser
One Million & One, by Andre E. Harewood
War is Grimm, by Clifford Beal
Blood Pact, by Sharon Cullars
Something I Have to Tell You, by John B. Rosenman
The Curious Simulacrum of Dr. F, by Michael Canfield
A Cure for Restless Bones, by Angela Enos
Homecoming Corpse, by Andrew Bourelle
A Chorus of Shadows, by Sarena Ulibarri
Graveyard Wine, by Joshua L. Hood
My Last Sixteen Hours, by Angela L. Lindseth
Wide Wide Sea, by Jackson Kuhl
The Safari, by Michael S. Walker
The Water Horse, by Bill W. James
The Long Way Home, by S.E. Casey
Unseelie Things, by Taylor Foreman-Niko
The Veneration of Evil in the Kingdom of Ancient Lies, by John R. Fultz
Livingstone, by Cody Goodfellow
Plus a selection of poetry by:
Darrell Schweitzer
Kyla Lee Ward
Abdul-Qaadir Taariq Bakari-Muhammad
Denny Marshall
Winter will not relinquish its throne and the polar vortex is plunging south. Icebergs gleam in the Bermuda Triangle and snow is falling in the Amazon. Blizzards swirl across the Sahara and the world has become a snowglobe from pole to pole.
Is this the coming of the next Ice Age?
Can anything be done to thaw the Big Freeze?
Join seventeen talented authors from around the world on their expeditions into the Snowpocalypse and read the chilliest tales ever written.
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