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If non-fiction is considered, I propose Low Tech Magazine. The articles have been compiled into three volumes: 2007-2013, 2012-2018, and 2018-2021. There is also a fourth volume of reader's comments.These can be purchased as either softcover or hardcover through Lulu, which utilizes local publishers for print-on-demand.
https://www.lulu.com/search?contribut...
I became disenchanted with solarpunk as a genre partly because it is too often simply greenwashed sci-fi. (Also because some writers use the genre to promote LGBTQIA2S).
I'm not interested in techno-utopianism or queernormativity. I want to read about society collapsing as justly as possibly, to simplify, decentralize, and escape the nightmare of techno-industrialism. Most solarpunk instead seems to continue the worship of technology and so-called progress.
John Michael Greer has written several books on collapse that I would suggest. He has also written about druidism, but that's not much of interest.
Consider also Richard Heinberg, who writes about peak oil or A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright.
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Hello everybody! My first time posting.I'm one of the writers for Solarpunk Prompts ( https://podcast.tomasino.org/@Solarpu... or in any podcast place), a podcast for writers discussing possible angles for writing a Solarpunk story. We're currently at our second season and each episode is 7-15 minutes, a mini-scene focusing on a community with a conflict / dramatic tension, yet with a lot of hope for overcoming it.
Our stories cover real world, often quoting real journalistic reports and linking to research. We don't want a "far off, plainly utopian" Solarpunk, but to show the beauty and hope in all the struggle we will need to face in the age of the Climate Catastrophe.
There's a Refugee Camp, there's a Community Center, there are The Archivists and The Chefs, even The Henchmen if you want to explore a deconstruction of some post-apo.
The episodes are written down at https://wiki.tomasino.org/writing/Sol... , so you don't need to listen to them. Please don't mind the unreleased ones, The Tower is the latest ;)
Would you consider reading such an anthology of Solarpunk Prompts?
We could so Season 1 only, or Season 1 + Season 2 up to "The Tower".
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Tomorrow's Parties: Life in the Anthropocenehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
I don't think the group has read it yet? Trying to synch back up after being away for a bit.
I also wanted to suggest The 2024 Imagine contest collection, Fiona.
It takes a bit to hit its stride, but the second half is one of my favorite reads in years: www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55077652"The kind of hope I have isn’t just greed going by its maiden name. The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works, and it’s not how oceans work, either."
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