Can anyone recommend any good novels or short stories set in a solar punk setting? I read a lot of sci-fi but somehow have never read anything set in this setting, I guess The Culture books could be considered solar punk in some ways but it’s almost too futuristic.

  • heavyboots
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    1 year ago

    • Gamechanger and Dealbreaker by L X Beckett

    • Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder

    • Walkaways by Cory Doctorow

    • Lots of stuff by Kim Stanley Robinson (New York 2140 for example)

    • Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson is about working towards a solar punk future but definitely not in one yet, kind of like KSR’s Ministry for the Future

    • Same with Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez (and his Delta-V series is similar)

    • Pretty much everything by Becky Chambers is so positive it belongs in the solar punk category. The Monk and Robot stuff in particular

    • Seconding “Green Days in Brunei” and possibly “Maneki Neko” by Bruce Sterling