Shinging Moon Episode 24: Environmental and Cli-Fi II

Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon Episode 24. Today we’ll return to the themes of environmental fiction, cli-fi, and solarpunk, on what will be our last episode for the year. Joining me today are Priya Chand, Amelia Gorman, Floris Kleijne, and Tehnuka. Let’s get started with some introductions.

Priya Chand is a California transplant living in the Midwest, where she regularly cuts down trees and sets them on fire (as a certified volunteer forest steward). When she's not reading, writing, or eating, she enjoys swimming, martial arts, and naps.

Amelia Gorman lives on California's redwood coast, where she spends her free time removing invasive ivy from the forests, and trash and sea urchins from the beach. Her chapbook, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, from Interstellar Flight Press, won the 2022 Elgin Award. Other climate related poems of hers can be read in The Gargoylicon, Eye to the Telescope, and Parks & Points.

Floris M. Kleijne (Floor-is Kleine) juggles two writing careers while paying the bills with an unrelated day job. In English, he’s the author of some fifty speculative fiction stories, some of them award-winning. In Dutch, and without middle initial, he’s an acclaimed thriller writer. In between, he translates.

Tehnuka (she/they) is a Tamil tauiwi writer and volcanologist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She was a finalist for the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest, and the winner of the 2023 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent in speculative fiction.
Stories and poems and collections featured in this episode:
Priya Chand
“On the Destruction and Restoration of Habitats,” Reckoning, February 20, 2021. https://reckoning.press/on-the-destruction-and-restoration-of-habitats/
“Demeter Seeks Persephone in the Year 2210,” Little Blue Marble, July 29, 2022. http://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/29/demeter-seeks-persephone-in-the-year-2210/
Amelia Gorman
"Field Guide to the Invasive Species of Minnesota," https://www.interstellarflightpress.com/fieldguide.htmlhttps://www.interstellarflightpress.com/fieldguide.html
Floris M. Kleijne
“An Oasis of Amends,” Reckoning 2, May 2018, https://reckoning.press/an-oasis-of-amends/
“Encroachment” Little Blue Marble, May 2020, https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/05/08/encroachment/
Tehnuka
“El, the Plastotrophs, and Me,” Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction contest, Sep 14, 2021. https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-el-the-plastotrophs-and-me/
“Why we Bury our Dead at Sea,” Reckoning 7, January 29, 2023. https://reckoning.press/why-we-bury-our-dead-at-sea/
Mo Usavage
“What it Means to Love a City,” Reckoning 7, July 2, 2023. https://r

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