Fiction

I especially enjoy reading examples of how Solarpunk principles have been applied in the real world, or fiction that breaks down my own mental barriers about whether a better world is possible. So, I started this reading list to document my favorites. It's starting to grow as a community project, so if you want to make a contribution you're welcome.

Happy reading!

Here's a little nonfic on the fiction genre and a plug for a new book from the author of this guest column.

Imagination is the capacity to envision, experience, or describe things that exist outside of this universe or at least outside of our personal experience. Imagination breaks various laws of physics and laws of history (for those who still believe in the disgraced hypothesis that history has laws) by allowing us to step outside the totality and engage in acts of parthenogenesis.

I just finished listing to this series. So good! Highly recommend it.

Maybe some of you don't know about Bookwyrm yet (I have seen some links in this community though!). It is like GoodReads for tracking and sharing your reading, finding lists and rate books, but it is federated just like Lemmy :)

Somewhat outdated, but has some interesting older suggestions.

I quite enjoyed the ride. I liked its experimentation with genders, its dealing of nature versus nurture, what it means to be human, and what it means to be alien.

I love Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin's work, but most of the solarpunk content I've come across is short stories. What would y'all recommend that I can get lost in for a while?

Reckoning press is a nonprofit, annual journal of creative writing on environmental justice. I dig the stories I've read of theirs so far, and they seem to have really good goals.

Note: Some spoilers in the linked article!

Trailer for a PC game.

I've been trying to find ecological fiction. The famous one is Dune, but The Terraformers puts a focus on balancing ecosystems that feels fresh and unique. People on a built world struggle to find balance when the owners of this world exploit and break it and its inhabitants try to keep things together. There's a lot of exploration ojf "personhood" as well.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/206212

Hugo Award winner for 2022 best Novella.

Haven't read it myself yet, but other books by Becky Chambers are quite good.