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You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories

By Octavia Cade
You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade digital book - Fable

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Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and humanity's will to transform. This is a collection that will both tear you apart and tend to your wounds. Cade's beautifully wrought stories are informed by science, tracing the biological and emotional threads that bind us, human and non-human alike. Containing a brand new novelette in the Impossible Resurrection of Grief universe, You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories is a promise of what worlds are possible if we allow ourselves to change.

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“Thank you to NetGalley and Octavia Cade for the ARC! I think this book has a lot of depth and if you read these stories at face value they just seem a little strange. But once you start to look deeper, they’re very intense stories. I felt like my heart was ripped out and put back into me several times while reading this. It was beautiful”
“"Some people learn to live with things that keep hurting them, but I've spent the past year trying for that and it's not working. All the little cuts, all the little bleeding places. You can only walk on them for so long" Like many good forms of environmental literature, Cade's writing says as much about our collapsing environment as it does about humanity itself. Short story collections with a political lean always run the risk of becoming preachy, sanctimonious with their sentimentality as they beat their point to a pulp. The first two stories struggle with this - they want to make a point, to make you FEEL the point, and it comes across a bit heavy-handed. You Are My Sunshine, the third story, is where this collection starts to hit it's stride. Cade immerses us in the possibilities for a future - one ravaged by climate change but also one where we still exist, despite what our deepest climate anxiety may tell us will happen. Cade lays out the narrative of a post-climate collapse world filled with Grief and loss but also filled with hope through stories of how we can find our way back to a better stewardship of our planet. I just hope that perhaps we can do some of these things before it collapses and not just after.”

About Octavia Cade

Octavia Cade is a speculative fiction writer from New Zealand. She has a PhD in science communication and a particular interest in how science is used in horror and science fiction that she likes to explore in both her academic and creative work. She has sold around seventy stories to various markets, and these stories increasingly focus on ecology and how people relate to their environment. Octavia attended Clarion West 2016. She was a visiting artist at Massey University in 2020 and the Ursula Bethell writer in residence at Canterbury University in 2023. She is currently plotting a non-fiction book on urban ecology.

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