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|name= Burning with Optimism's Flames
|image       = Burning Optimism's Flames.jpg
|image= Burning Optimism's Flames.jpg
|series       = ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' anthologies
|series=''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' anthologies
|number       = 2
|number= 2
|editor       = [[Jay Eales]]
|editor= [[Jay Eales]]
|cover       = [[Paul McCaffrey]]
|cover=[[Paul McCaffrey]]
|publisher   = Obverse Books
|publisher= Obverse Books
|release date = [[31 January (releases)|31 January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|release date= [[31 January (releases)|31 January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]
|format       = {{il|Hardcover book|E-book}}
|format= {{il|Hardcover book|E-book}}
|isbn         = ISBN 1-57032-905-2, ISBN 1-57032-907-9
|isbn=  
|prev         = A Romance in Twelve Parts (anthology)
|prev=A Romance in Twelve Parts (anthology)
|next         = Liberating Earth (anthology)
|next=Liberating Earth (anthology)
}}
}}
'''''Burning with Optimism's Flames''''' was the second ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' anthology.
'''''Burning with Optimism's Flames''''' was the second ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' anthology.
== Publisher's summary ==
I can remember asking him, ‘What are the stars? Where do they come from?’
He would tell me that the stars are burning worlds, caught forever in their unending flames, raging, roaring against the night. They look out beyond their fragile spheres for places of calm and serenity to shine their brightness and bring life.
He would clasp me around the shoulder and say that we were like stars. We had to use the energy within us to defeat the cold spaces, to turn away the dark things that dared to destroy life. We had to find our own calmness and serenity even when it was denied us.
I don’t think I understood him then. I was too small, and my brother never spoke in the concrete terms that my brain could comprehend.
Looking back on it, though, I think that’s when P.J. began to burn.
- Intermediant Izzy Ring, The Heaven Facility


== Individual stories ==
== Individual stories ==
{| {{prettytable}}
{| {{prettytable}}
|'''Title''' || '''Author'''  
! Title || Author
|-
|''[[Raleigh Dreaming (short story)|Raleigh Dreaming]]''
|[[Elizabeth Evershed]]
|-
|-
|''[[Raleigh Dreaming (short story)|Raleigh Dreaming]]''||[[Elizabeth Evershed]]
|''[[Office Politics (short story)|Office Politics]]''
|[[Alan Taylor]]
|-
|-
|''[[Office Politics (short story)|Office Politics]]''||[[Alan Taylor]]
|''[[...and from the Tower She Did Fall (short story)|...and from the Tower She Did Fall]]''
|[[Cate Gardner]]
|-
|-
|''[[...and from the Tower She Did Fall (short story)|...and from the Tower She Did Fall]]''||[[Cate Gardner]]
|''[[La Santa Muerte (short story)|La Santa Muerte]]''
|[[Daniel Ribot]]
|-
|-
|''[[La Santa Muerte (short story)|La Santa Muerte]]''||[[Daniel Ribot]]
|''[[Dos Hombres - A Fable (short story)|Dos Hombres - A Fable]]''
|[[Kelly Hale]]
|-
|-
|''[[Dos Hombres – A Fable (short story)|Dos Hombres – A Fable]]''||[[Kelly Hale]]
|''[[All the Fun of the Fear (short story)|All the Fun of the Fear]]''
|[[Stephen Marley]]
|-
|-
|''[[All the Fun of the Fear (short story)|All the Fun of the Fear]]''||[[Stephen Marley]]
|''[[Wing Finger (short story)|Wing Finger]]''
|[[Helen Angove]]
|-
|-
|''[[Wing Finger (short story)|Wing Finger]]''||[[Helen Angove]]
|''[[The Strings (short story)|The Strings]]''
|[[Jason Worrad]]
|-
|-
|''[[The Strings (short story)|The Strings]]''||[[Jason Worrad]]
|''[[Squatters Rights (short story)|Squatters Rights]]''
|[[Juliet Kemp]]
|-
|-
|''[[Squatters Rights (short story)|Squatters Rights]]''||[[Juliet Kemp]]
|''[[After the Velvet Eon (short story)|After the Velvet Eon]]''
|[[Simon Bucher-Jones]]
|-
|-
|''[[After the Velvet Eon (short story)|After the Velvet Eon]]''||[[Simon Bucher-Jones]]
|''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]''
|[[Jonathan Dennis]]
|-
|-
|''[[Remake/Remodel (short story)|Remake/Remodel]]''||[[Jonathan Dennis]]
|''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]''
|[[Aditya Bidikar]]
|-
|-
|''[[Dharmayuddha (short story)|Dharmayuddha]]''||[[Aditya Bidikar]]
|''[[A Star's View of Caroline (short story)|A Star’s View of Caroline]]''
|[[Sarah Hadley]]
|-
|-
|''[[A Star’s View of Caroline (short story)|A Star’s View of Caroline]]''||[[Sarah Hadley]]
|''[[De Umbris Idearum (short story)|De Umbris Idearum]]''
|[[Philip Purser-Hallard]]
|-
|-
|''[[De Umbris Idearum (short story)|De Umbris Idearum]]''||[[Philip Purser-Hallard]]
|''[[Contributors (short story)|Contributors]]''
|
|}
|}
== Notes ==
* Of the several writers in this anthology who were new to [[Obverse Books]], [[Alan Taylor]] and [[Sarah Hadley]] had previously worked with editor [[Jay Eales]] on the charity anthologies ''[[Perfect Timing 2]]'' and ''[[Walking in Eternity]]''; [[Dan Ribot]] and [[Jim Worrad]] were members of Eales' local writing group, the Speculators; Eales was introduced to [[Cate Gardner]] through the British Fantasy Society; and [[Aditya Bidikar]] secured his place through an unsolicited submission,<ref>[http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/violentwebcomic/2012/08/11/fourteen-go-mad-in-the-eleven-day-empire/ Fourteen Go Mad in the Eleven-Day Empire]</ref> having discovered the Faction Paradox series through [[Andrew Hickey]]'s blog.<ref>[https://andrewhickey.info/2012/10/15/faction-paradox-burning-with-optimisms-flame/ Burning With Optimism's Flame]</ref>


== External links ==
== External links ==
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[[Category:2013 anthologies]]
[[Category:2013 anthologies]]
[[Category:FP anthologies]]
[[Category:FP anthologies]]

Latest revision as of 21:59, 8 May 2023

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Burning with Optimism's Flames was the second Faction Paradox anthology.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

I can remember asking him, ‘What are the stars? Where do they come from?’

He would tell me that the stars are burning worlds, caught forever in their unending flames, raging, roaring against the night. They look out beyond their fragile spheres for places of calm and serenity to shine their brightness and bring life.

He would clasp me around the shoulder and say that we were like stars. We had to use the energy within us to defeat the cold spaces, to turn away the dark things that dared to destroy life. We had to find our own calmness and serenity even when it was denied us.

I don’t think I understood him then. I was too small, and my brother never spoke in the concrete terms that my brain could comprehend.

Looking back on it, though, I think that’s when P.J. began to burn.

- Intermediant Izzy Ring, The Heaven Facility

Individual stories[[edit] | [edit source]]

Title Author
Raleigh Dreaming Elizabeth Evershed
Office Politics Alan Taylor
...and from the Tower She Did Fall Cate Gardner
La Santa Muerte Daniel Ribot
Dos Hombres - A Fable Kelly Hale
All the Fun of the Fear Stephen Marley
Wing Finger Helen Angove
The Strings Jason Worrad
Squatters Rights Juliet Kemp
After the Velvet Eon Simon Bucher-Jones
Remake/Remodel Jonathan Dennis
Dharmayuddha Aditya Bidikar
A Star’s View of Caroline Sarah Hadley
De Umbris Idearum Philip Purser-Hallard
Contributors

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]