Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.

David Somerfleck

Kim Stanley Robinson interviewing former President of Ireland Mary Robinson this Sunday in San Francisco!

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/mary-robinson-in-conversation-with-kim-stanley-robinson-tickets-1985612585695

#SFinSF #KSR #KimStanleyRobinson #Ireland #MaryRobinson

Mary Robinson in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson

The former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson will be in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson on Sunday March 29th from 2:00pm.

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Born this day: 03/23/1952
Kim Stanley Robinson is best known for the Mars trilogy — Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars — a landmark depiction of the colonization and terraforming of Mars. A multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, BSFA, and Campbell Memorial award winner, his work centers on ecology, economics, and humanity's future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson

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Very lazily working my way through Kim Stanley Robinson's Blue Mars at Daughters. It's a beautiful day.

#canberra #marstrilogy #kimstanleyrobinson

Nothing makes you feel old quite like digging out your favourite sci-fi novel from when you were a teenager and realizing it's now that year. #redmars #MarsTrilogy #kimstanleyrobinson
Unsere Biosphäre versorgt uns Menschen, kann uns aber auch schweren Schaden zufügen und uns im schlimmsten Fall töten. Kim Stanley Robinson bezeichnete die COVID-19-Pandemie als Weckruf. #sfcd #seuchen #pandemie #sciencefiction #kimstanleyrobinson

Leben wie in einem Science-Fic...
Leben wie in einem Science-Fiction-Roman - Demokratischer Salon:

Leben wie in einem Science-Fiction-Roman Seuchen und Pandemien in Wissenschaft und Literatur „Meine Interpretation der Ereignisse seitdem ist, dass die Pandemie uns mit der Erkenntnis konfrontiert hat, dass unser Leben aus den Fugen geraten kann, dass wir tatsächlich sterben können, dass die Biosphäre sich erheben und alles verändern kann.“ (Kim Stanley Robinson in einem Gespräch mit

Demokratischer Salon:

Huge thanks to Kim Stanley Robinson for these generous words about T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES. “These exciting stories...give us a much-needed vision of how things could turn out well, despite the many dangers we are facing. They gave me hope and made me laugh— what a great mix!”

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I wish they'd hurry up and make that TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, obviously they'd have to bump up the events from the original 50 years (by now in that time a ship to colonise Mars is being built, they don't have an Elon Musk fucking thing up)

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