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Rebuilding Tomorrow won the Aurealis Award for Best Anthology!

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Rebuilding Tomorrow won the Aurealis Award for Best Anthology!

The 2020 Aurealis Awards, Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards, were announced in July 2021. Rebuilding Tomorrow was the winner of the award for Best Anthology! 🎉 Additionally, “Kids These Days” by Tansy Rayner Roberts, published in Rebuilding Tomorrow, was shortlisted for Best Young Adult Short Story.   You can find the complete list of works shortlisted for Aurealis Awards here and all the winners...

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Announcing the Table of Contents for Rebuilding Tomorrow!

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Announcing the Table of Contents for Rebuilding Tomorrow!

After much story wrangling, we are happy to announce the Table of Contents for Rebuilding Tomorrow! These are the stories that will be included in the anthology, many of which we are announcing today for the first time. So when you pick up your copy of Rebuilding Tomorrow, here is what you can expect to find inside…

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Interview with Stephanie Gunn

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Interview with Stephanie Gunn

Today on the blog we have an interview with Stephanie Gunn. Stephanie has stories in both Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow, which she discusses below. She also wrote the novella Icefall, which will be going out to everyone who backs our Rebuilding Tomorrow Kickstarter, to celebrating passing 250 backers.

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Guest Post from Katharine Duckett

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When I wrote “Nothing But Flowers,” a story about the aftermath of world-changing disaster in New York City, for the Rebuilding Tomorrow anthology, I didn’t think that I would soon live to see such a catastrophe myself. It wasn’t that the possibility was totally removed from my mind: as a queer disabled woman living through a time of global climate change and dangerous political turmoil in the United States, I’m keenly aware of the fault lines in the systems in which I exist, the ways in which the city and country I was living in can shift and swallow up the people already precariously perched on the edges of its fatally flawed structures. But the New York City of the summer of 2019, the summer when I drafted my story, was a noisy, bustling place, with free concerts in the parks where strangers shoved up shoulder to shoulder to see the stage, and sports games with tens of thousands of attendees, and bars and restaurants and theaters filled with people, talking and laughing with nothing but the occasional hand or napkin covering their mouths. I wrote notes for my story sitting in the cramped corner of jam-packed cafés, trying to imagine a city that had fallen to cataclysm while its present version clamored around me, irrepressible and vibrant and always threatening to knock over my cup of coffee.

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Guest Post from Janet Edwards

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Guest Post from Janet Edwards

I feel incredibly honoured to have stories in both the Defying Doomsday anthology and its follow-up, Rebuilding Tomorrow. Both the contents and the titles of these anthologies have deep personal significance to me.

I grew up living with something that I considered a minor inconvenience rather than a disability. In retrospect though, it limited my life more than I realized, mostly because of the unhelpful reactions of a few other people. Back in early 2000, there was a new development though. I had a seemingly standard illness that led to a secondary infection, and finally ended up with an acquired chronic illness.

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Out of Necessity Comes Reinvention (guest post by SB Divya)

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Out of Necessity Comes Reinvention (guest post by SB Divya)

In August of 2018, I was having one of the best worst months of my life (no, that’s not a typo). I’d been nominated for a Hugo Award as part of the Escape Pod team, and I had sent my first novel, “Machinehood,” out to beta readers. I planned to celebrate both accomplishments at the San Jose WorldCon.

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Interview with Fran Wilde

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Interview with Fran Wilde

Today we have an interview with Fran Wilde on the blog. Fran has written a lot of stories and novels featuring disabled characters. One of these stories, “Rhizome, By Starlight” will appear in Rebuilding Tomorrow, which you can help make happen by backing us on Kickstarter now.

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Interview with Tansy Rayner Roberts

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While we haven’t finalised all the stories that will be included in Rebuilding Tomorrow (that will depend a little bit on how well our Kickstarter goes), we have locked in some early authors. One of those is Tansy Rayner Roberts, who also had a story in Defying Doomsday. Her story, “Kids These Days” is a sequel to her Defying Doomsday story, “Did We Break the End of the World?”. If you haven’t read Defying Doomsday (or even if you have) you can listen to “Did We Break the End of the World?” for free on Tansy’s podcast: Sheep Might Fly.

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Guest post from Kristy Evangelista

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Today on the blog we have a guest post from Kristy Evangelista. Kristy wrote “No Shit” for Defying Doomsday, about a Brisbane woman with Crohn’s disease who survives an extremely deadly pandemic. There will be a follow-up story in Rebuilding Tomorrow, thematically titled “Merry Shitmas”. I’ll let Kristy tell you more about them, and the experience of writing them.

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The Start of Rebuilding Tomorrow

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The Start of Rebuilding Tomorrow

Back in 2016, we launched Defying Doomsday, an anthology of apocalypse survival fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill characters. In the lead up to that, I wrote a bit about where the idea for Defying Doomsday came from over on Diversity in YA.

Rebuilding Tomorrow is the followup anthology to Defying Doomsday. In many ways it’s a sequel — in fact, some of the stories it contains are direct sequels to some of the stories in Defying Doomsday — but it’s also a book with an intentionally different focus. Before the pandemic, back in mid-2018, when I was first thinking about Rebuilding Tomorrow, I wanted to make a book that went a step further than just surviving the apocalypse. Feeling gloomy about the in-progress climate apocalypse, I decided I wanted to make a book about getting on with life after the world has irrevocably changed.

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