Slimy Things Did Crawl: Free Science Fiction, Solarpunk

Name: Slimy Things Did Crawl: Free Science Fiction, Solarpunk
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)

Susan Kaye Quinn

Mar 2024 · Halfway to Better Book 1 · Twisted Space LLC

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SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible.

Slimy Things Did Crawl is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection.

If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers’ Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

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5.0

6 reviews

Christinaraven Blinn

March 18, 2024

I really enjoyed this short story where 3 crew are at the bottom of the ocean cleaning up plastics. The story opens when they are in the middle of a regular boring day at the bottom when they find something wild. It made me laugh at what happened next and snicker at what it really was and had to see if they would survive.

About the author

Susan Kaye Quinn is a PhD Environmental Engineer turned speculative fiction author and the host of Bright Green Futures, a podcast that lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world. Sue writes hopeful climate fiction, futuristic spec fic, cyberpunk, and steampunk romance. Her novels have been optioned for Virtual Reality and translated into German and French, while her short stories have been published by Grist, Little Blue Marble, Reckoning and more. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. She writes full-time, trying to build a better world by imagining it first.

Website: SusanKayeQuinn.com, Podcast/substack: BrightGreenFutures.wtf

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