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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin and the Lunar/Solarpunk dichotomy
(theanarchistlibrary.org)
Lunarpunk is a subgenre of solarpunk with a darker aesthetic. It portrays the nightlife, spirituality, and more introspective side of solarpunk utopias. It can be defined as "Witchy Solarpunk." Aesthetically, lunarpunk usually is presented with pinks, purples, blues, black, and silver with an almost omnipresence of bioluminescent plants and especially mushrooms
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Ha, I just realized that The Dispossessed is a literal example of lunarpunk, since Anarres is the moon of Urras!
Well, Le Guin herself gave it the subtitle 'an ambiguous utopia'. I think it just makes the whole novel (and the ideas) that much stronger, since it's not just some masturbatory fantasy about anarchism. She really imagines another type of society, problems and all.
She’s such an important person both for Solarpunk / Lunarpunk and speculative fiction in general as well as Anarchism and related movements