Hey folks, appologies if this has been asked before (although surprisingly I couldn’t find a similar post) - what solarpunk book, film, game, tv, etc recommendations does every have?

I’m only just discovering the genre, looking for some good starting points!

  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net
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    Ecotopia is a fun one because it hits all the notes but predates the genre.

    Murder in the Tool Library is a favorite of mine because the setting is awesome and aspirational while feeling real and human, and because the murder mystery plot is a change from the usual ecofiction.

    The solarpunk TTRPG Fully Automated! is free (libre and gratis) and has several sections devoted to its setting and worldbuilding that helped me understand a bunch of solarpunk concepts by seeing them in practice and to start thinking much bigger with my own fiction. It also has some good advice on creating engaging plots in an aspirational solarpunk setting where a lot of the usual problems have been solved.

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    • Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
    • The Dispossessed - Ursula K LeGuin
    • Walkaway - Cory Doctorow
    • The Lost Cause - Cory Doctorow
    • Sunvault - multiple authors
    • Psalm for the Wild Built - Becky Chambers
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    nausicaä and the valley of the wind. environmentalism shows up a lot in miyazaki’s work, but nausicaä is the most direct about it and aligns with solarpunk in its messaging and themes.

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    I really like Murder in the a tool library by Ae Marling and The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.

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    Idk if it’s solarpunk per se but I dearly loved “The Overstory” by Richard Powers fair warning it’s not a happy piece of fiction

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    “Always Coming Home” by Ursula K Le Guin.

    Check out the card game ‘Earthborne Rangers” too.

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    ‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ by Marge Piercy is the most solarpunk novel I’ve read so far. Fiction, that is. And it’s early '70s!