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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.

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[–] PegasusAssistant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure it totally fits, but Always Coming Home by Ursula K LeGuin was an amazing read. The premise is that an ethnographer of the future is writing about a future, post climate change California people called the Kesh. Most of the book is actually stories the Kesh themselves tell, be it poetry, folk tales, an autobiography, and even a snippet from a novel.

It's an absolutely transformative book that I can't recommend it enough. It's like nothing else I've ever read.

[–] suhvaydra@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Psalm for the Wild-Built" is set in a solar punk world! Can't recommend Becky Chambers highly enough.

[–] LambChop@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I recently listened to the audiobooks of this and its sequel, 'A Prayer for the Crown Shy' for free on Libby.

It made a very nice change from my usual dark dystopian sci fi reads...