Curatorial Theme: Radical Optimism as Political Resistance. Solarpunk envisions a future where humanity has solved its ecological crisis through sustainability, community, and technology that works with nature.
Becky Chambers · 2021
Post-Scarcity Purpose. Flagship text of modern Solarpunk, exploring purpose and relationship with the created.
Ernest Callenbach · 1975
Secessionist Utopia. Laid the structural blueprint for the Solarpunk aesthetic in 1975.
Cory Doctorow · 2023
Activism as Lifestyle. Deals with the nuts and bolts of actually building a green future.
Ruthanna Emrys · 2022
Consensus Governance. Focuses on the importance of decentralized decision-making.
Genre Definition. Showcase of the diversity of the Solarpunk aesthetic.
Lauren C. Teffeau · 2018
Tech & Privacy. Explores the tension between technological protection and the surveillance state.
Paolo Bacigalupi · 2015
Resource Scarcity. The "shadow" or problem that Solarpunk solves; high stakes of resource scarcity.
Kim Stanley Robinson · 1990
Legislation/Utopia. Romanticizes the "quiet work" of democratic utopia and local decisions.
Octavia E. Butler · 1993
Adaptation/Earthseed. Provides the spiritual backbone: shaping change before it shapes us.
Karl Schroeder · 2019
Game Theory/Economy. Subverts the surveillance economy for ecological value.