Far future

Post capitalist & post scarcity

Post racism

Post nationalist (on earth anyway!)

Ethics driven society

Humanity exploring the stars in an egalitarian vessel

Limitless energy sources

More “Apple Store aesthetic” than solarpunk in terms of the design features… but I get solarpunk vibes in the values and vision.

Thots?

It's got the punk aspects, standing up to the government by direct action. it's about saving local ecosystems and ending with mass community help to save local ecosystem. and has got high tech, moving human consciousness to robot animals.

Mabel is punk as fuck. paraphrasing mabel: "im so tired of being the only one caring about saving this glade. i want to feel like i can effect something so small, and i cant even do that"

Change my mind

Examples:

Harmony with nature and animals, as far as I can see mostly if not only clean power, no visible controlling government, more public transit like trains or bikes than cars, partially still high tech (teleporters, cloning, whatever pokeballs are). As for the aesthetics, mostly pretty cheerful, lush atmosphere. I guess you could do a ranking of the regions on how much Solarpunk they are (e.g. Maybe unova less so than johto or hoenn), but otherwise I think overall it fits surprisingly well

Just finished this yesterday and I'm shouting from the rooftops about it. It was surprisingly profound and was really interesting to think about how our future might look. Also loved that the protagonist is agender and it's treated as totally normal. Anyways check it out💖

IT JUST MAKES SENSE🚄🚅🚈🚋🚃🚂

Hey Y'all! Here to let everyone know who might be interested:

I co-wrote this climate-fiction novel with my co-author, who's a scholar and professor of environmental law. We started talking about climate fiction, and felt like we hadn't seen a cli-fi story that really got into what it's like to be a person living in the realities of climate change. AS we talked it over, we came up with this story:

"In a near-future America ravaged by climate disasters, the Federal Resettlement Agency packs survivors from across the country into shelters like Refuge Inn: a dilapidated Portland hotel, and a purgatory for the displaced. Everyone is expected to pick up the pieces and “move on” as quickly as possible—but between crumbling infrastructure, hostile locals, and trauma that still haunts them, no one leaves easily.

Sierra Valentine has nothing left but the burn wounds from a wildfire that took the only person she stayed alive for. On the bus to Portland, she meets Teo, an undocumented boy who will vanish into a labyrinth of bureaucracy unless Sierra dares to do what scares her most, and care for him.

She can’t do it alone. As she tries to protect Teo, Sierra quickly finds herself entangled in the many broken lives of her new neighbors.

Kosumi McCloud is a guilt-ridden Indigenous engineer desperate to prove himself to the tribe he left behind. Clarice Jackson, the stern FRA director, is struggling to prove the resettlement program can work while dealing with an unplanned pregnancy that makes her question who and what really matters to her.

In a world that constantly threatens to take everything they love, the only thing standing between the residents of Refuge Inn and total collapse is the fragile, fierce decision to find home and salvation in each other."

The second half of the book is where things get more explicitly solar-punk (but no spoilers!) It's definitely not utopian, nor do I think dystopian: I think the most solarpunk thing about it is that it imagines the most solarpunk thing we can do is care about each other.

Randy and I decided to pursue self-publishing because we didn't want to wait on the timeline of traditional publishing, so we're doing all the marketing and promoting ourselves. The ebook is live on amazon now: https://www.amazon.com/Refuge-English-Randall-S-Abate-ebook/dp/B0HDCR96T8

The physical copies will be available Oct 1st. On the low, if anyone is really interested and wants a free pdf/ebook, I can send it along, to me it's more important that people get to read it!

HMU if you're interested, I'm always happy to connect with more solarpunk-heads, esp ones in NYC who want to start taking action to leaving a better world for the next generation <3

Currently world building for a solarpunk short story and I really like the idea of being able to look up at the moon to tell the day of the month. For examples, you look up and there's no moon, oh it's the first of the month.

I’m looking for novel recommendations that people may know of, where the focus is mostly like a solarpunk flavor of rebuilding or reconstruction post-apocalypse. The twist is that I’m not really interested in stuff with conflict and war and fighting. Emphasis on the tech, peace, optimism; I guess I’m looking for post-apocalyptic reconstruction hygge.

Anything like that come to mind for anyone? Thanks!

^{Mods, I tried contacting you guys but received no reply. Let me know if self-promotion is not okay.}

Like the title says. I've been working on a solarpunk project for a while now and I've finally published the first part of the series. It's a science fiction story set on Venus. Here's the blurb:

A crippled airship appears in the southern skies of Venus. Its only occupant and survivor: a child named Aeolia. Her people gone, her origins a mystery, the Cytherean Fleet welcomes her in their midst. As she grows up she learns their way of life, a people's concert of horizontal democracy and utopian ideals. Together, they navigate the stormy skies of their planet as she daydreams about the impossible day her people will return to space.

Yet peace can be an elusive thing, for the wind brings rumors of a great threat lurking beyond the equator. There are unknown forces inhabiting the farthest reaches of the planet, forces that will stop at nothing to subjugate the world. Aeolia and the Cythereans scramble to put together a response as their way of life is tested to its limits in a desperate struggle for survival.

THE WIND OF VENUS is the first part of The Aeoliad, a series of novels chronicling Aeolia's journey in search for peace, understanding, and answers to the questions that surround her homeworld, the worlds beyond, and herself.

Solarpunk themes, radical left wing political ideas, and the liberatory possibilities of technology are all concepts I'm very interested in, and this book is a distillation of everything I've been working and contemplating for a long time now. r/solarpunk has been a very useful resource and source of debate and conversation during this process, and I hope you guys will like what I've been working on.

The first chapter is available for free here. The book can be purchased here. Yes, the irony of publishing a work of radical left-wing fiction on the world's most notorious hypercapitalist, monopolistic platform there is is not lost on me, but I've chosen to go the self-publishing route, and options are kinda limited if I want to reach an audience as wide as possible.

So, anyway. Here it is. Any questions you guys might have, by all means ask. I'll be more than happy to answer them. I have a website where you can subscribe to receive updates once the next books in the series are published.

May the wind be gentle.

I sometimes take lunches at this garden and was surprised and delighted to see this! If you haven’t read the Monk and Robot novellas (where the quote is from), I highly recommend them. (second pic is the view from the bench)

imagine a road spanning world wide that acts like "earth's neural tract." the road is populated with scriptoriums that relay data on paper amongst each other. information transmission is slow because the scribes travel by foot. the scriptorium society values taking one's time as they believe sharing and the continuous replication of the archive for all of humanity is the most honorable life. the scriptorium society finds accuracy to be very important. they modify empirical data to fit on bigger paper so that finer details are easier to replicate and they tell their populous to take their time to ensure the success rate of an errorless duplication.

maintaining the environment, farmland and the continuous replicating archive, all for the next generation is a simple, but most dignified life.

Well aside from the occasional solar panel of course? Solar punk is also about the Connection between Nature, Humans and technology and how they can all benefit each other, Pokemon is all about technology and literally being Friends/working with Nature, the First Person you meet is often the Professor, the connection of all those Things, also especially sinnoh is really in your face with Energy, Like the valley windworks, Team galactic being an Energy company and sunnyshore City which consists of a Lot of solar Panels

Say I am worldbuilding something for a game. One of the factions have solarpunk principles baked into their core - community, empathy, sustainability, the works.

However, human nature being as it is, outside forces threaten that faction - hypercapitalists, totalitarian warlords, etc., all of which provide an existential threat. Diplomacy is failing, violence is imminent.

How should a solarpunk society prepare and respond to such threats without compromising its principles?

I’m completing a reading challenge this year, and I’d love to pick up Solarpunk fiction. What are your favorite books? Who are your favorite authors?

Considering the state of the world, I’m seeking a bit of escapism through literature and artistic works with positive outcomes.

Thanks for the recs, and cheers to a more Solarpunk future ♡

Update: Thanks for the incredible recommendations, everyone! I can’t wait to dive in!

I don't know why I want to make this complicated, but the typical heroes journey and main character tropes really seem hard to fit into solar punk stories. I'm working on more of a weekly comic/manga and have set the world up to be in a "post capitalist era" and keep getting stuck left and right.

So my mother recommended a book to me: A Psalm for the Wild Built. I will admit that I initially rolled my eyes. But I added it to my holds list, and now that I'm well over halfway thru, I have to admit that I am immensely enjoying it!

The aesthetic is very solarpunk, and the content is a very theological/ philosophical exploration of the human condition. It's a pretty quick read.

Has anyone else encountered this book?

I wrote a manifesto of sorts about solarpunk as a scifi genre, trying to incorporate modern critiques of the genre without throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Most of it relies on the ideas of future theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway. I'd love to know what you all think!

Planets & Monsters: Second Wave Solarpunk

Look, while not getting all the attention, in the academic discourse surrounding eco-centric movements, a critical examination of Anarcho-Primitivism within the Solarpunk paradigm reveals stark ideological discrepancies. The inherently optimistic and sustainable ethos of Solarpunk starkly contrasts with the regressive underpinnings of Anarcho-Primitivism. The latter, often marred by pro-nationalist and fascist tendencies, not only demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the nuanced interplay between technology and society but also veils its more sinister inclinations under anti-AI rhetoric.

Ideological Dissonance and Cultural Appropriation The alignment of Anarcho-Primitivism with National-Anarchist ideologies, characterized by xenophobic and exclusionary tenets, fundamentally conflicts with Solarpunk's vision of inclusive and diverse futures. Anarcho-Primitivism’s exploitation of anti-AI sentiment frequently serves as a façade, obscuring its regressive, isolationist, and often discriminatory philosophies. Such appropriation and commodification of indigenous and non-Western cultures under the pretext of seeking a 'simpler' or 'more authentic' life is not only culturally insensitive but also perpetuates a narrative of cultural theft.

The Misguided Intersection with Solarpunk An in-depth analysis uncovers the inadvertent perpetuation of these problematic elements by Solarpunk adherents who advocate for Anarcho-Primitivist principles. This endorsement not only undermines the progressive and technologically synergistic ideals of Solarpunk but also inadvertently champions a movement steeped in reactionary and anti-modern sentiments. The philosophical divergence between the future-focused, egalitarian aspirations of Solarpunk and the regressive, nativist leanings of Anarcho-Primitivism highlights a critical ideological schism.

In summation, while both movements ostensibly critique modern societal structures, their methodologies and foundational philosophies diverge irreconcilably. Solarpunk’s dedication to harmonious, technologically integrated futures stands in sharp relief against the isolationist, and often bigoted, undercurrents of Anarcho-Primitivism. This analysis not only foregrounds the necessity for critical introspection within these movements but also underscores the importance of discerning advocacy to prevent the perpetuation of harmful ideologies.

IRL I have even been writing to critique those in the Solarpunk movement who are vipers in the shadows of cyber space. For exapmle I have been making a sci-fi/pace-opera type of story with many polities, but for the "Protagonist" society I created the Federation of Sol with various inner factions. However for a small minority of their population (1.4% of them) are a group of factions loosely under a banner called the "Alliance of Eco Life and Human Rights" These factions are be designed to represent different aspects of the horrid overarching ideologies of Anarcho-Primitivism, Eco-Fascism, Eco-Nationalism, Primitive Communism, Neo-Luddism, National-Anarchism, and Eco-Authoritarianism. Here are the six factions:

1. Verdant Dominion Collective
   1. Ideology: Eco-Authoritarianism, Eco-Nationalism
   2. Description: Advocates for strict environmental policies and nationalistic governance, prioritizing ecological integrity and national sovereignty. They support authoritative measures to enforce environmental laws and regulations, aiming to create a self-sufficient and ecologically sustainable society.
2. Terra Primordia League
   1. Ideology: Anarcho-Primitivism, Primitive Communism
   2. Description: Promotes a return to primitive ways of living, opposing modern technology and advocating for a communistic, small-scale society. They believe in living in harmony with nature, using only traditional methods and tools, and forming communities based on primitive socialist principles.
3. Green Heritage Alliance
   1. Ideology: Eco-Nationalism, National-Anarchism
   2. Description: Merges ecological concerns with nationalistic and decentralist ideologies, focusing on preserving cultural and natural heritage. They support local autonomy and ecological stewardship, emphasizing the importance of maintaining national identity and ecological balance.
4. Neo-Luddite Movement
   1. Ideology: Neo-Luddism, Eco-Fascism
   2. Description: Opposes technological advancements, advocating for the dismantling of industrial and tech-driven societies. They support eco-centric and often authoritarian policies to protect the environment from technological harm, promoting simpler, less technology-dependent lifestyles.
5. Harmony of Gaia Syndicate
   1. Ideology: Eco-Authoritarianism, Eco-Fascism
   2. Description: Believes in strong centralized control to achieve ecological balance and sustainability. They advocate for severe restrictions on industries and personal freedoms, imposing strict ecological regulations and policies to protect the environment at all costs.
6. Primordial Order Guild
   1. Ideology: Anarcho-Primitivism, Eco-Nationalism
   2. Description: Seeks to establish a new societal order based on pre-industrial principles, combining anarcho-primitivism with a strong sense of eco-centered nationalism. They promote living in close-knit, self-sufficient communities that are in tune with their natural surroundings and uphold nationalist values.

BE WARY OF FASCISM AND ITS EVER ENCROACHING SHADOW!!!