list of upbeat SF anthologies

imagine 2200

Description: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.

Fiction gives us an opportunity to imagine the world we want to live in, in a way that journalism doesn’t. Our hope is that the stories presented in the Imagine 2200 collection will inspire, delight, and motivate readers to take action to make elements of those worlds a reality.

Contest judged by Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins and Kiese Laymon.

Publisher: Grist.

Contest launched: January 12, 2021; closed for entries: April 13, 2021;

Publication: probably late 2021;

fix the world

Description: Twelve sci-fi writers save the future. We’re a world beset by crises. Climate change, income inequality, racism, pandemics,  an almost unmanageable tangle of issues. Sometimes it’s hard to look ahead and see a hopeful future.

We asked sci-fi writers to send us stories about ways to fix what’s wrong with the world.  From the sixty-five stories we received, we chose twelve most amazing (and hopefully prescient) tales.

Dive in and find out how we might mitigate climate change, make war obsolete, switch to alternative forms of energy, and restructure the very foundations of our society,

The future’s not going to fix itself.

Publisher: Other Worlds Ink.

Edited by J. Scott Coatsworth.

Publication date (planned): April 10, 2021;

and lately, the sun

Description: Bushland is burning. The Arctic is shedding ice. And around the world, people are imagining futures which function.

Gritty, graceful, commonsense or whimsical, these twenty tales probe at how we could build a working world usinf the resources available to us — the natural, the socail, the political, and the technological.

Publisher: Calyx Press.

Edited by Calyx.

Publication date: November 26, 2020;