SHINE: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction

by Jetse de Vries, Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon

A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow.

SHINE shows that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative. Let's make our tomorrows SHINE.

Featuring orginal stories by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon, Lavie Tidhar, Jason Andrew Madeline Ashby, Jacques Barcia, Eva Maria Chapman, Ken Edgett, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Eric Gregory, Mari Ness, Holly Phillips, Gareth L. Powell & Aliette de Bodard, Gord Sellar, Paula R. Stiles and Jason Stoddard.

279 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2020

About the author

Jetse de Vries—@UpbeatFuture—is a technical specialist for a propulsion company by day, and a science fiction reader, editor (part of the Interzone team 2004 — 2008, the groundbreaking optimistic SF anthology SHINE) and writer (Clarkesworld, Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds, Escape Pod, and many more) by night.

He's also an avid bicyclist, total solar eclipse chaser, single malt aficionado, metalhead and intelligent optimist. On March 28, 2021, he posted the world’s first NFT SF novel on Ethereum’s Mintable. His first novels are about to come out.

Reviews

[Andrei88 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the stories are hit or miss, the last one was a major miss for me, the one before that I think would have been better to end the book on, still it is a good anthology and did present a bright take on the future, something that is missing in science fiction.

[Sarah]

i read the first 2 stories and the intro and didn't really care for them. so i'm not going to pressure myself to read more.