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

@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

Hopepunk/Solarpunk

Scroll down for Hopepunk/Solarpunk recommendations SUE TALKS HOPEPUNK Sue’s article on hopepunk in DreamForge Magazine “Rewriting the Future” (Sept 2023) Sue at the Pittsburgh Sus…

SUSAN KAYE QUINN
@susankayequinn I love that there's both #hopepunk and #solarpunk. Mine is definitely hope punk - a civilisation trying to work towards something better while battling all the bad things within their system.

@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 — 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/

SUSAN KAYE QUINN

author of speculative fiction.

SUSAN KAYE QUINN
@susankayequinn @liztai Curious if you've read any Kim Stanley Robinson and especially his recent Ministry for the Future? He's one of my favorites and a lot of his work could be described as defiantly positive, though lately it's also been tempered by how much social and scientific knowledge he's accumulated. It seems that it gets harder to be utopian when you know all the ways utopia is very likely to ultimately fail.
@seldoncrisis @liztai KSR's MftF is one of the novels on my website's rec-reads for hopepunk! (As is Becky Chambers' Monk&Robot series). I've heard him speak a couple times (he's coming to the Grist bookclub I'm in on Wed!) and he's such an inspiring speaker. Deeply in love with the world and advocating for a better future. His MftF novel has had a wonderful impact in really elevating the public's idea of what's *possible*. That's what I hope to do with my works as well.
@seldoncrisis One of the reasons many of us don't use the Utopia word is that it implies perfect in all ways, which isn't realistic (as you said, will ultimately fail). Solarpunks are doing work in the real world. Solarpunk writers offer realistic futures to help us aim. @susankayequinn @liztai