The Pono Way: A Solarpunk Novel – Kirsten M. Corby (my own name) 


 

n 2050, the United States of America finally crumbled. Jake Weintraub’s family fled the burned-out ruins of Chicago for the safety of the artificial island steading of Pono. Now grown, Jake works as an independent journalist, but the horrors of the Chicago River Riots still haunt him.

As Pono watches, safe in the Pacific Ocean, the successor West Coast state of Cascadia collapses under a further series of catastrophes. Thousands of desperate refugees arrive on Pono’s shores – homeless, stateless, and hungry.

Jake throws himself into covering their story, even as their plight evokes memories of his own trauma and flight. Can Pono, a carefully constructed island society, accept this influx of strangers? Or will this crisis tear Ponoan society apart?

SPSFC Year 2022

Subgenres: Agripunk / Hopepunk / Solarpunk, Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic, 1, 1

Date first published:  August 13, 2021

On Kindle Unlimited: Yes

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Author Information

Twitter: @AuthorCorby

Website: http://www.kirstencorby.com

Biography: A writer is all I ever wanted to be. I “wrote” my first story before I could actually read, or write. I dictated it to my mom, and she wrote it down. She then folded the sheet of paper into a little quattro, and I illustrated it. It still exists. I sold my first short story shortly after I got out of college. I wrote off and on, but sadly I lost most of those early efforts to Hurricane Katrina. My journals, too. I hadn’t wanted to believe it would be that bad. Well, Hemingway also lost all his early stories in a suitcase lost at a train station, and ultimately he felt having to start over again made him a better writer. After a long hiatus post-Katrina and graduate school I started writing again. I write science fiction and fantasy. The Pono Way is my second book.

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