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Radical Possibility: How Climate Fiction Can Create Better Futures Wednesday, June 10th 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM CDT on Zoom #Grist #CliFi #ClimateFiction #HopeCore #HopePunk #books #stories #ImaginingPossibilities #ImaginingTheFuture #libraries #librarians #librarianship https://luma.com/19l5xgr9

Radical Possibility: How Climate Fiction Can Create Better Futures · Zoom · Luma

In an era defined by democratic backsliding, climate crisis, disinformation, fear-mongering, and the normalization of cruelty, speculative climate fiction…

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[Essay] #Cultural Elements in World-Building of #Solarpunk Short Stories

Written by Katarzyna Lubawa
Oct 1, 2020

"Solarpunk is a new movement in SF that examines the possibility of a future in which currently emerging movements in society such as #green movement, #BlackLivesMatter movement, and certain aspects of #OccupyWallStreet coalesce to create more optimistic future in a more just world."

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Cultural Elements in World-Building of Solarpunk Short Stories

Written by Katarzyna Lubawa.Keywords: solarpunk, sci-fi, cyberpunk, quasi-utopian visionsAnticipating the development of our civilization has been a vital part of the fantastic for a long time. Imagining the future is one of the driving forces behind science fiction and its subgenres (such as cyberpunk or speculative fiction). Solarpunk, which I introduced in my previous entry, is a relatively new subgenre that focuses on creating quasi-utopian visions of the future world. Its setting depicts a

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