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The Polyphony of Green: An Adult Saphic Solarpunk Novel
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Series: The Polyphony Trilogy, Book 1
Science FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798245837727
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
I am Lira, she forced herself to say. I am separate. I choose to return.
But pulling back was harder than it had ever been...
Dr. Lira Ansel, a blind xenobiologist in a floating forest-city, has spent years listening to the bioelectric songs of engineered trees-until she discovers something singing back. An alien microbial intelligence has woven itself through the forest's roots, offering profound connection and collective consciousness. As Lira risks repeated communion to understand this vast, distributed mind, she faces an impossible choice: preserve her individual humanity or surrender to transformation that could bridge two incompatible species.
But pulling back was harder than it had ever been...
Dr. Lira Ansel, a blind xenobiologist in a floating forest-city, has spent years listening to the bioelectric songs of engineered trees-until she discovers something singing back. An alien microbial intelligence has woven itself through the forest's roots, offering profound connection and collective consciousness. As Lira risks repeated communion to understand this vast, distributed mind, she faces an impossible choice: preserve her individual humanity or surrender to transformation that could bridge two incompatible species.
When a green-tech consortium arrives to commercialize the alien presence, Lira must navigate corporate exploitation, her own dissolution into collective awareness, and a deepening relationship with systems engineer Mara Ibekwe-who loves Lira specifically, not the expanded consciousness she's becoming. With her integration approaching the point of no return, Lira has days to establish protocols for coexistence between human autonomy and alien connection-or watch both species destroy what they're trying to save.
The Polyphony of Green is an 80,000-word adult sapphic solarpunk novel featuring:
For fans of thoughtful science fiction exploring consciousness, identity, and the cost of being the bridge between worlds.
The Polyphony of Green is an 80,000-word adult sapphic solarpunk novel featuring:
- Sapphic Romance - A love story between two women navigating transformation, fear, and choosing each other despite impossible odds
- Disabled Protagonist - A blind xenobiologist whose disability is integral to her expertise, not a limitation to overcome
- Solarpunk Worldbuilding - Floating forest-cities, bioelectric communication systems, and hopeful futures built on cooperation
- First Contact Science Fiction - Distributed alien intelligence, consciousness studies, and the ethics of interspecies communion
- Found Family - Scientists, engineers, farmers, and community organizers working together
- Identity & Transformation - Deep exploration of selfhood, consent, and what we're willing to sacrifice for connection
- Anti-Corporate Themes - Commons-based governance vs. profit-driven extraction, workers' rights, and resisting exploitation
- Neurodivergent Representation - Multiple neurodivergent characters whose different processing is valued and essential
- The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
For fans of thoughtful science fiction exploring consciousness, identity, and the cost of being the bridge between worlds.
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