QuasitCan anyone recommend some good solarpunk novels or videos for me? I could use some hope. Feels like I'm in the bottom of the Pit of Despair, with no escape in sight!
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Arcadia@Quasit Clarkesworld Magazine has solarpunk stories from time-to-time. I really loved Portmeirion Road: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/moore_05_24/
@Quasit I had no idea that Portmeirion was a real place - it's lovely! I'm going to reread with this beautiful village in mind
@arcadia
Try watching "The Prisoner". It's a short series, but a truly classic one. Filmed (although they don't admit it until the final episode) in Portmeirion. Well, the interiors were filmed in a studio.
The Internet Archive has most or all of it. Here's a link to the first episode.
https://archive.org/details/the_prisoner_dvd1_1967
Oh, YouTube seems to have the whole series too.
https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLBrrfZs-ew7NeZ-4sYoqnEsifM0jL7vQ7?sbp=KgtmRFpuMURQVE95TUAB
The Prisoner dvd1 1967 : Patrick McGoohan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Prisoner series from 1967 with Nordic subs.S1.E1 ∙ Arrival Fri, 29 Sep, 1967After resigning, a secret agent finds himself trapped in a bizarre prison...
Ciara@Quasit Not a novel or film, but is so immersive that it feels like one: the Lost Terminal podcast drama series. It's a genuinely original hopepunk and solarpunk journey. A beautifully written, beautifully voice-acted work of reality-based post-collapse fiction. Funny, moving, gripping. Full of lovely insights and hope-ridden examples of solarpunk life & human community.
Marion K ⏚
Licho@marionkarle @Quasit on the other hand, Psalm for the wild built is young adult type of novel, recommend lowering your expectations. Simplistic world building and plot points forced one by one can't be excused by the convention.
I'm cool with YA. I still read children's books, even though it's been half a century since I was a child. I've always been very small-c catholic in my tastes!
@Quasit alrighty, I think I was disappointed because no one told me that. This book was so hyped and I had Expectations :) with the right approach it's probably very enjoyable
Expectations can definitely make a huge difference. One of my favorite movies had a TERRIBLE commercial on TV. I went in expecting a huge disappointment.
Instead I was delighted!
@marionkarle
Thanks, I've read some (but not all) Becky Chambers; I like her work. And "Everything for Everyone" was the first Solarpunk novel I tried. Definitely a good one!
Thanks, I've read some (but not all) Becky Chambers; I like her work. And "Everything for Everyone" was the first Solarpunk novel I tried. Definitely a good one!
Legit_Spaghetti@Quasit I'd argue that The Mountain In The Sea is solarpunk.
BlueSpruce@Quasit From a quick skim of your past book recs, I see your expansive tastes include murder mysteries? In which case you might enjoy A.E. Marling’s Solarpunk Mysteries, starting with Murder in the Tool Library. They’re all excellent, hopeful, compelling, fun.
I see you also like a lot of classic sci-fi, including Asimov, so you might have the interest and perseverence to dive into some Kim Stanley Robinson, if you haven’t already. My favorite is the Mars Trilogy. It’ll give you hope in a grounded, if hard-fought, way.
You might also enjoy Semiosis by Sue Burke, first contact with sentient plant life on an alien planet. It’s an imaginative community-driven adventure.
And I see you rec YA sometimes, so you might like Nnedi Okorafor’s books (e.g. Zahra the Windseeker), or Jayan FR’s The Wind of Venus. Both coming of age stories, the former with lots of living tech and talking animals plus friends surviving a journey, the latter in a nicely imagined anarchist community of airships around Venus, with more classic sci-fi action in the second half.
Thanks so much! I'm going to try them all. And you're right, I DO like YA. Always have.
Georg KuryBooks
Nick Fuller Googins: The Great Transition
Ernest Callenbach: Oekotopia
Kim Stanley Robinson: New York 2140
Film
Daniel Goldhaber: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Clockwork ☃️✒️As for the videos, check out Andrewism on YouTube!
alxd of the Story Seed Library@clockwooork @Quasit plus one to Andrewism!
Also have some https://storySeedLibrary.org/
Kropotkinson (we are all 🇵🇸)Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri. It is explicitly intended as solarpunk.
Wiley@Quasit
- Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
- Inversion by Aric McBay
- Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown
-The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
- Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
- Inversion by Aric McBay
- Octavia's Brood by adrienne maree brown
-The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@Quasit it's not solarpunk exactly but I consider Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds, the manga and Studio Ghibli film, to be one of the most hopeful movies I've ever seen, and one that suggests at least the possibility that humanity might learn to live in a more sensible equilibrium with the surrounding environment.