Bookshelf
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The Hopeful Wanderer
Wander a world driven from mundane to magical by a secret hidden at its heart.
A slow apocalypse has corroded a distant planet, with the uncanny living in uneasy commune alongside those remaining. On a forgotten quest from the stars, the Wanderer roams among them, through crumbling societies and vibrant wildernesses, navigating a murky path toward an incredible past.
While helping and receiving help—or hindrance—from strange denizens of unusual destinations, the Wanderer must finish righting a wrong that threatens to extinguish the universe itself. Should memory of the responsibility return at all.
Featuring
✨100 Hopeful Wanderer tales
✨20 new short stories
✨10-episode revelatory ending
✨100% revised and expanded
A far-future science fantasy with sub-tones of soft-apocalypse and climate change, this hopeful adventure combines exploration, eeriness, and wonder across 100 short tales.
Join readers who loved the web series and journey alongside them in discovering the Wanderer’s wondrous past and hopeful mission to save the stars.
Woven through with themes of acceptance, kindness, beauty in difference, and the wonder and strangeness of nature, this story will charm and delight readers of Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara and fans of The CryptoNaturalist and Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson.
A slow apocalypse has corroded a distant planet, with the uncanny living in uneasy commune alongside those remaining. On a forgotten quest from the stars, the Wanderer roams among them, through crumbling societies and vibrant wildernesses, navigating a murky path toward an incredible past.
While helping and receiving help—or hindrance—from strange denizens of unusual destinations, the Wanderer must finish righting a wrong that threatens to extinguish the universe itself. Should memory of the responsibility return at all.
Featuring
✨100 Hopeful Wanderer tales
✨20 new short stories
✨10-episode revelatory ending
✨100% revised and expanded
A far-future science fantasy with sub-tones of soft-apocalypse and climate change, this hopeful adventure combines exploration, eeriness, and wonder across 100 short tales.
Join readers who loved the web series and journey alongside them in discovering the Wanderer’s wondrous past and hopeful mission to save the stars.
Woven through with themes of acceptance, kindness, beauty in difference, and the wonder and strangeness of nature, this story will charm and delight readers of Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara and fans of The CryptoNaturalist and Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson.
"I love how varied the experiences were. The heartwarming stories mixed right in with the unsettling and strange is a perfect picture of life. The underlying story for why this is all happening was absolute perfection..." — Amanda K. Collier, ARC Reader
Anthologies
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Beneath the BluebonnetsAn anthology of Texas horror focused on the extraordinary experiences of women.
Featuring "Well Being," my regional environmental horror in which a mother follows strange impulses from tainted well water to find her daughter. "A visceral, haunting collection that punches between beauty and terror, gore and catharsis, fury and justice."
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Writing the Mother RoadAn anthology of Route 66-themed regional fiction and nonfiction by Texas writers.
Featuring "Two Sixes," my near-future soft-apocalypse western in which a caravan leader must work out a deal with a small town on Route 66 ravaged by drought and wildfire or lose everything she's worked for since the end of the world. "What a fun adventure! In honor of the centennial Celebration of Route 66, I thought I would grab a copy and wow! Fun stories, each one connected to the Mother Road. Recommend getting a copy and enjoying the history and lore!" – Amazon Reviewer
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Little Blue Marble: Warmer Worlds
An anthology of environmental fiction centering a changed world.
Featuring "I Hope This Email Does Not Find You," my near-future solarpunk soft-apocalypse in which a wheelchair-using woman trapped in an abandoned mall seeks community. |
Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol. 2An anthology of Texas horror written by regional horror writers.
Featuring "Thirsty Ground," my regional environmental horror about a teenage girl who must fight off a drought-stricken land in its desperate bid for water. |
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S.G. Baker is a writer and editor who penned The Hopeful Wanderer, a far-future science-fantasy novel-in-stories with sub-tones of soft-apocalypse and climate change. She has authored climate fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories in Beneath the Bluebonnets, Writing the Mother Road, Freelancer, The Legacy, Little Blue Marble, and Road Kill.
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