UTOPIA/HAVOC traces humanitys long arc through collapse, adaptation, and renewal.

In these stories, the end is never clean. The cities of tomorrow shimmer with both promise and ruin; technology becomes a god, a weapon, and a mirror. Lovers meet inside virtual heavens, rebels rise from the ashes of burnt-out empires, and new mythologies take root in the cracks of what was once civilisation.

Each story stands alone, yet together they chart a single continuum from the smog-choked present to a solarpunk horizon that offers glimpses of what we might achieve, what we might overcome, if we act now.

Featuring acclaimed and emerging voices in speculative fiction, UTOPIA/HAVOC is a journey across the boundaries of genre and hope: a collision of despair and beauty, grief and growth, ruin and rebirth.

Here’s the full list of stories that will appear in this anthology:

• The Last Snow Protea by Laurie Janey
• Perfect Worlds by Jenna Mervis
• Small Rebellions by Joss Wyer
• Out of Body, Out of Mind by Luke Fourie
• Over the Mountain, Beyond the Barrens by Nerine Dorman
• The Benediction of Gaia by Ciaran R. Maidwell
• Buried Alive by Thandi Rose
• The Water that Hides in the Waves by Stef van Staden
• Paper Lantern Boys by Marius du Plessis

What will humanity build when everything has burned? Will havoc reign, or might we find our own small utopias in between it all?