I want to read some solarpunk fiction. Any authors or books you can recommend?
Becky Chambers, of course
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I’m a self published author, I recently wrote a solarpunk western. It’s free!
https://books2read.com/b/bOgDKWFree People’s Village by Sim Kern is on my shelf, haven’t read it yet. The premise is that history went differently in 1990s and US is now a solarpunk utopia… For the rich.
i’ve been listening to children of time recently, and it features a society that i would describe as fairly solarpunk, altho not in the typical way. it’s a pretty good read :3
Oh my gods. I love this series so much. I don’t know if I’d call the entire thing solar punk, rather the goal of the series seems to be to play with the idea of what life could look like if the person is vastly different from a human. I would highly recommend the entire series, though.
I love all of the books and rate them some of my favourites of all time, but my absolute favourite is Children of Memory. It took me a decent amount of time to figure out what was going on, and it was absolutely devastating. Then he turned it around and revealed that my conclusion was wrong, and it was even worse.
I love Kern as a character. She’s headstrong and steadfast in her beliefs from the get-go, and I find that really compelling in a person. She’s not without kindness though, even though that kindness often comes as a result of self-interest.
I’ve had that one staring at me from my bookshelf for months now, I need to get to it. Glad to hear a positive recommendation for it
Most of Tchaikovsky’s sci Fi can be described as off-centered solar punk.
I loved the Final Architecture series, though that’s probably the least solar punk. I’m in the middle of The Expert System’s Brother, which is excellent.
I recommend Elder Race too.
I’ve read 11 Tchaikovsky and 7 Becky Chambers books over the past few years, so I’m a little biased.
Woman on the Edge of Time is still the best at directly addressing a solarpunk society as far as I can tell. Piercy does it both in world building and exposition, while contrasting with both future dystopia and current modern society.
Some of the ideas are original and inspiring, some show that everything has a cost, and some are very challenging.
AE Marling has some good world building and entertaining reads. My favorite is Missing Mermaid
Hi! I’ve read a ton of solarpunk and I have the following bookshelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/51902418-steve-tauber?order=d&shelf=solarpunk&sort=rating
I also recommend checking out the Solarpunk genre on goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/genres/solarpunk
You might like these titles:
- Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122774417-bioluminescent
- Arboreality https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61259096-arboreality
- Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59968759-everything-for-everyone
- Solarpunk creatures https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199768460-solarpunk-creatures
- Salt and Seeds https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/233718205-salt-and-seeds
Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks
