{"id":3605,"date":"2023-02-06T22:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3605"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:01:24","slug":"you-are-my-sunshine-and-other-stories-by-octavia-cade","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/product\/you-are-my-sunshine-and-other-stories-by-octavia-cade\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About the Book<\/h4>\n<p class=\"western\">Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and humanity&#8217;s will to transform. This is a collection that will both tear you apart and tend to your wounds. Cade&#8217;s stories are informed by science, tracing the biological and emotional threads that bind us, human and non-human alike. <em>You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories<\/em> is a promise of what worlds are possible if we allow ourselves to change.<\/p>\n<h4>About the Author<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Octavia Cade<\/strong> is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication. She attended Clarion West 2016, has won three Sir Julius Vogel awards for speculative fiction, including for <em>The Impossible Resurrection of Grief <\/em>from Stelliform Press. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee and was the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University.<\/p>\n<h5>Learn More<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Read or listen to the first story in the collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/fiction\/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read an excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/divinationhollow.com\/reviews-and-articles\/extract-you-are-my-sunshine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the collection&#8217;s title story on Divination Hollow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Also Available From:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weightlessbooks.com\/you-are-my-sunshine-and-other-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weightless Books<\/a>\u00a0(for DRM-free ebooks)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/you-are-my-sunshine-and-other-stories-octavia-cade\/1143428706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes and Noble<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blackwells.co.uk\/bookshop\/product\/9781778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackwell\u2019s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/1778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.ca<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/dp\/1778092640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.com.au<\/a>\u00a0(etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A transformative eco-horror to solarpunk short story collection from award-winning author Octavia Cade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Elegant, incisive, memorable.&#8221; \u2014 Foreword Reviews<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The 15 masterful stories in Cade\u2019s sophomore collection (after The Mythology of Salt) offer a hauntingly beautiful melding of hard science and raw emotion against the backdrop of the climate crisis. &#8230; Cade skillfully interweaves her characters\u2019 existential despair in the face of a dying planet with more personal grief, all while maintaining a through line of hope and resilience. In its union of deeply human and environmental narratives, Cade\u2019s collection will put readers in mind of Richard Powers\u2019s The Overstory.&#8221; \u2014 Publishers Weekly starred review<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Octavia Cade\u2019s You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories is a thought-provoking collection. There is something for everyone, from quick impactful reads to longer narrative driven stories. I highly recommend this for fans of all genres, especially those looking for unique subject matter.&#8221; \u2014 Joseph Pietris for The Horror Tree<\/p>\n[embed]https:\/\/youtu.be\/qzz0wo46BXY[\/embed]\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 12px;\">Customers outside of CA\/US: due to supply chain issues, worldwide shipping of print books is currently slow and expensive. We recommend shopping with your local indie bookstore. If you do order a print book from us, it will be shipped from the closest print facility to you and will therefore be printed on standard paper and will not include the goodies we send with CA\/US orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"product_cat":[71,70,85,50,45,55,53,56],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories by Octavia Cade &#8902; Stelliform Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about short story collection YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE by Octavia Cade. 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