Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jan 16, 2023

Learned about a new #scifi genre today - #SolarPunk

"Solarpunk stories take place in futures where humanity, technology, and nature live in harmony rather than in conflict."

TBH, it sounds a lot like #StarTrek which makes me think I will love this genre!

Who are the #authors in this genre?

#Books #Bookstodon #reading

https://www.tor.com/2021/09/30/the-solarpunk-future-five-essential-works-of-climate-forward-fiction/

The Solarpunk Future: Five Essential Works of Climate-Forward Fiction

“Don’t readers ever get tired of being told that the world is coming to a nasty, ugly end and only a very few people will survive, by luck and by violence?” That’s the question asked by legendary s…

Tor.com
Show threadAnne DeschaineJan 16, 2023
@liztai Becky Chambers! She also skews hopepunk, but her works are gentle and full of heart.
Show threadtech? no! man, see...

@aehdeschaine @liztai I don't think of solarpunk as a fiction genre as much as an artistic aesthetic tbh

similar to steampunk, people thought it was a literary thing because of that one Sterling novel but the lasting influence was more about the art and design style that came out of it

Jan 16, 2023 at 11:33pmWeb
Show threadAnne DeschaineJan 16, 2023
@technomancy @liztai I know what you mean, as far as the Art Nouveau-esque visual aesthetic. But there has developed a literary genre around the ideals that feed the aesthetic. Sometimes I prefer the hopepunk "realism" of fighting/working to get to solarpunk, but the solarpunk dream can be really nourishing and inspiring.