Slimy Things Did Crawl

Slimy Things Did Crawl (Halfway to Better Book 1)
Slimy Things Did Crawl
Susan Kaye Quinn

SHORT STORY: At the bottom of the sea, a trawler crawls across an abyssal plain, carefully cleaning microplastics off the ancient mineral-rich nodules, when the crew finds something that shouldn’t be possible. A short solarpunk story in a near-future world, for fans of Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry For the Future.

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About the Author

Susan Kaye Quinn is a PhD Environmental Engineer turned speculative fiction author and the host of Bright Green Futures, a podcast that lifts up stories about a more sustainable and just world. Sue writes hopeful climate fiction, futuristic spec fic, cyberpunk, and steampunk romance. Her novels have been optioned for Virtual Reality and translated into German and French, while her short stories have been published by Grist, Little Blue Marble, Reckoning and more. Sue believes being gentle and healing is radical and disruptive. She writes full-time, trying to build a better world by imagining it first.

Susan Kaye Quinn