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?
https://www.tor.com/2021/09/30/the-solarpunk-future-five-essential-works-of-climate-forward-fiction/
@liztai Solarpunk is just getting started, but I'm writing it as well as many others. I highly recommend Solarpunk Magazine to get a sampling of short works.
I have more recs on my website: https://susankayequinn.com/hopepunk-solarpunk
My Nothing is Promised series is near-future solarpunk (hopepunk climate fiction): https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised
@liztai I think of hopepunk as a broader term โ I've written hopepunk that hasn't had anything to do with climate. Solarpunk is hopepunk that's specifically climate fiction... although there are some darker solarpunk stories that I would say aren't really hopepunk.
Glad to hear more folks are writing in these genres!
@liztai You might be interested in the hopepunk author panel I've organized โ it's coming up next week! (Jan 24th 7pm EST, will be recorded)
Registration link: https://watertown-ma.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TV9EwW_STMGGpdhtLlvfRA
Do you wish you felt more hopeful about the state of our world? Then you'll want to hear from Renan Bernardo, Brianna Castagnozzi, Susan Kaye Quinn, and T. K. Rexโthey're writing hopepunk stories that challenge us to look up from our doomscrolling and envision a future filled with defiant optimism! About the Panelists: Renan Bernardo is a sci-fi and fantasy writer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has stories published in multiple languages and magazines, including Apex Magazine, Solarpunk Magazine, Podcastle, and Daily Science Fiction. Brianna Castagnozzi is the co-editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine. Her work has been published in Stonesthrow Review, Shawangunk Review, Entropy, and Clarkesworld. Susan Kaye Quinn is an environmental engineer/rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. She writes hopepunk climate-fiction full-time and believes being cozy/gentle/healing is radical and disruptive. Sue's hopepunk can be found in DreamForge magazine and Grist's Imagine 2200 contest. T. K. Rex is a science fiction and fantasy author of mostly British and Ashkenazi descent, raised by witches in the western states and currently pretending to be a Silicon Valley tech worker for purely research purposes and not at all because she still owes $40,000 in student loans. You can find her mostly non-cynical, mostly climate-themed stories in Strange Horizons, Asimov's, Reckoning, and elsewhere.
@liztai @susankayequinn Sounds cool. I just found out there's a #solarpunk genre and until never heard of #hopepunk. The original #punk was an act of rage against a dominant conformist establishment. It's kind of too bad that it now requires the equivalent just to have and demonstrate some hope for the future.
Do you have any links to your work?
@seldoncrisis @liztai Writing hopepunk, daring to have stories that aren't dystopias, that not only show but demand a better future, is definitely a defiant act!
You can find my works on my website โ my hopepunk cli-fi series, Nothing is Promised, as well as my short fiction. And there's a page that talks more about hopepunk/solarpunk (if you're interested) including recs!
https://susankayequinn.com/
Elizabeth Tai | ๆด็ง้ ๐ฒ๐พ
Sue is Writing Solarpunk ๐๐ฑ
Joel at Seldon Crisis
BrightFlame ๐โ๏ธ๐