Inked in Gray Press sets a September 29 release for the hopepunk anthology Stellar Parallax

The small press’s science-fiction collection gathers stories about care and connection in dystopian futures, including a space-station orchard and a floating city.

Inked in Gray Press will publish Stellar Parallax: Human Hope in Grimdark Worlds on September 29. The small press’s title page gives that release date and describes the science-fiction anthology as a collection about connection and compassion in dangerous futures. Its direct e-book listing supplies ISBN

978-1-952969-51-5. The publisher’s examples include a mother and child tending an orchard aboard a space station, a boy trying to save his baby sister in a floating city, and an older Puerto Rican man who expects to be shot but is instead taken to a floating island. The anthology is edited by A. J. Van Belle and frames

itself as hopeful science fiction set against grimdark conditions. Headline image: official book cover; source and credit: Inked in Gray Press.

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