Octavia Cade – författare

IN A DYING WORLD, GRIEF HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN...

With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby''s friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first... but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she can''t avoid choosing which side she''s on. How can she fight against the dead and the forces behind them when doing so risks her home, her life, and the entire biosphere?

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.

"[O]ne of those speculative fiction magazines that I get genuinely excited to read because the kind of stories they publish are always some concept or execution I''ve never seen before."

-Alex Brown, reviewer for Tor.com

Reckoning 7, edited by Octavia Cade, Priya Chand, and Tim Fab-Eme, focuses on oceans and the global water cycle.

Featuring poetry, essays, fiction, and art by Elsie Andrewes, Priya Chand, Tim Fab-Eme, Octavia Cade, Nadine Aurora Tabing, Emily Alta Hockaday, Tehnuka, Naila Francis, C.G. Aubrey, Anastasia Jill, Dheepa R. Maturi, The Reverend Emilie Teresa Smith, E.C. Barrett, Rajiv Moté, Sam Claussen, Virginia Boudreau, Sera Gamble, Ruth Joffre, Ivy Raff, Colm O''Shea, Elizabeth Wilson Davies, Oyedotun Damilola Muees, Ejiro Elizabeth Edward, Aparna Paul, Amanda Yskamp, Maria S. Picone, Susan L. Lin, Micah Nemerever, Mo Usavage, Varun U. Shetty, L. Chan, Justine Norton-Kertson, Sara E. Palmer, Filomena Acosta, J.H. Lee, Floris M. Kleijne, Cristina Legarda, Dyani Sabin, Kelsea Yu, and T. K. Rex.

Ebook release: January 8, 2023

Print release: July 2023

Trade paper, perfect-bound. 256 pages, 65,000 words.

Contents

Art

Drua - Elsie Andrewes

Sacral - Amanda Yskamp

Essays

Editorial - Priya Chand

Editorial - Tim Fab-Eme

Editorial - Octavia Cade

A River Dance: Cauvery in Crisis - Dheepa R. Maturi

From the River to the Sea - The Reverend Emilie Teresa Smith

The Dream Catcher''s Island - Ejiro Elizabeth Edward

Fiction

The Bright in the Gyre - Nadine Aurora Tabing

Why We Bury Our Dead at Sea - Tehnuka

A Predatory Transience - C.G. Aubrey

Swimming Whole - E.C. Barrett

The Air Will Catch Us - Rajiv Moté

Icediver - Ruth Joffre

A Song for the Selkies - Oyedotun Damilola Muees

Little Apocalypses - Aparna Paul

Inclement Weather - Susan L. Lin

What It Means to Love a City - Mo Usavage

The Sand Knows Its Way Home - L. Chan

A Glass of You - Filomena Acosta

Yellow River Burial - Floris M. Kleijne

A Scarcity of Sharks - Kelsea Yu

SQUAWKER AND DOLPHIN SWIMMING TOGETHER - T. K. Rex

Poetry

Lies You''ve Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch - Emily Alta Hockaday

After encountering the grey whales in El Burbujon, Laguna Ojo de Liebre - Naila Francis

Facebook Event: Run into the Category 5 Winds of a Woman Pretending to be a Hurricane - Anastasia Jill

The Split-in-Half Lumberjacks - Sam Claussen

Aftermath - Virginia Boudreau

the world as it is - Sera Gamble

In Memory of Thwaites Glacier - Ivy Raff

Carbon Sink - Colm O''Shea

Cantre''r Gwaelod - Elizabeth Wilson Davies

Ocean Vengeance - Maria S. Picone

P-T - Micah Nemerever

Losing Ground - Varun U. Shetty

Great Barrier Reef - Justine Norton-Kertson

Reconciliation - Sara E. Palmer

Sublease of Land - J.H. Lee

How to Place an Intravenous Line - Cristina Legarda

History of Orconectes - Dyani Sabin