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When We Hold Each Other Up

By Phoebe Wagner
When We Hold Each Other Up by Phoebe Wagner digital book - Fable

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One rule oversees the post-apocalypse: never refuse a Harmonizer.


Storytellers claim there are two original stories. When a stranger named Eduardo, a Harmonizer with extraordinary powers, arrives with a warning, Rowan senses life is about to change. Eduardo warns that Haven City is growing and all those living in the expansion zone are in danger. 


As the living world recovers from ecocide, the Harmonizers control cities to keep the human population in balance. But while the Harmonizers claim their actions are peaceful, Eduardo says they're taking too much and returning to the patterns that caused the world to warm. 


Rowan decides to head out with Eduardo on a quest to warn others living in solarpunk communities that have fallen within the newly expanded city limits. Along the way, Rowan collects stories of survival and realizes fleeing the city will only encourage its expansion. Rowan and Eduardo must face the harm buried deep in their pasts if they're to have any hope of bringing the city to a halt.


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“When We Hold Each Other Up is the perfect blend of dystopian and solarpunk fiction. It's dystopian in that the world is slowly climbing back from climate disasters that ravaged the landscape. And it's solarpunk in not just because of the tech described in the book but that even among all the tragedies the world suffered. And hardships that the characters still face. No matter what there's always hope on the horizon. The story is about a young boy Rowan as he travels Earth's dystopian landscape accompanied by the enigmatic Harmonizer Eduardo. The novella is brilliantly written with the only draw back being its length. I wish the it would have been a full novel.”

About Phoebe Wagner

Phoebe Wagner's debut novel A Shot of Gin is forthcoming from Parliament House Press (2023). She is the editor of three solarpunk anthologies, including Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk & Eco-Speculation. She blogs about speculative literature at the Hugo-winning Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together. Wagner currently pursues a PhD, studying ecocriticism and speculative fiction at University of Nevada, Reno. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. Follow her at phoebe-wagner.com or on Twitter: @pheebs_w.

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