Another Life

ANOTHER LIFE is a solarpunk science fiction novella set in Death Valley, available now from Stelliform Press! When scientific proof of reincarnation is discovered, the mediator of a peaceful community grapples with a dark past that's suddenly personal.

"Sarena Ulibarri’s sun-drenched story of reincarnation, resilience, and renewal truly shines, granting us a convincing solarpunk future full of hope that another life could one day be ours."
~Lauren C. Teffeau, author of Implanted

"With Another Life, Ulibarri has given us a gift: a gentle, humane, and hopeful vision of our future. I want to live in Otra Vida!"
~Ian Tregillis, author of The Mechanical

"If you’re looking for something that’s post-corporate, post-capitalist but fully explores the complexities of that transition, this is the book for you... I found this read to be thoughtful and compassionate in its exploration of humanity’s relationship to technology, nature, and each other."
~Jo Ladzinski, author of Ice Upon a Pier

"Another Life does what the best political science fiction does: rock us out of our complacency, indeed our intellectual laziness, and actually begin to think of how we can get humanity out of this mess."
~Alex Wallace, Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together

Steel Tree

STEEL TREE is a science fiction retelling of The Nutcracker, available now from Android Press!

In the agricultural bread basket for humanity's new colony, there wasn't supposed to be any native animal life, but farmers have been going missing and rumors abound of something lurking in the shadows. At Klara Silber's winter harvest party, the introduction of a new android nutcracker should have been the big news--but that's before one of the guests transforms into a giant rat and goes on the attack.

"Ulibarri engages deeply with Tchaikovsky’s classic, studding the narrative with an imposing space-bound Christmas tree, dancing fairies, romance between Klara and her printed-circuit android prince, and a hissable villain."
​—Publishers Weekly
Click the covers below to read free online stories.
​Full list of published short stories here.
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"The Bolt Tightener" Lightspeed Magazine March 2013
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"The Spiral Ranch" DreamForge Magazine, October 2019 Also published in Italian, and reprinted in "Worlds of Light and Darkness"
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"The Ice Tree" Apparition Literary Magazine, April 2018
"It’s a moving and bittersweet story that really dives into pain and family, aftermath and illness. And it’s one heck of a read!"

—from a review of "Chrysalis in Sunlight," Charles Payseur of Quick Sip Reviews
"... there’s not a single wasted word in this story, and the bare style only enhances the mood. The sparse environment, the repetitious occupation that brings a dread-inducing inevitability of returning to that bolt and those tentacles, all serve to conjure up a terrific air of uneasiness."

—from a review of "The Bolt Tightener", James G. Harper of ten to infinity
"'True horror is seeing something approach.' That's where horror lives, the second before something becomes. These stories, all short, all focused and all perfect, embody that second and explore it from every single angle. "Other People's Houses" by Sarena Ulibarri folds something else in there too. She shows us the moment our story intersects with something older and darker...But then she does something even cleverer, showing us that sometimes horror transforms not just ourselves but our outlook. Sometimes that transformation is positive. Or is that just what we're told to think?"

—from the introduction to Whispers From the Abyss, Alasdair Stuart, October 2013
"Ulibarri shows off an impressive wit right from the get go. Chad's scathing retort to NASACorp's shameless corporate panhandling is so drenched with sarcasm that you wish you wrote it yourself."

—from a review of "Fun(draising) with Meteoroids", Zach Lisabeth, December 2015