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Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Carlos Orsi

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morebedsidebooks's review

3.0

The rains are almost through. Our measurements are perfect. Our ominous prediction of the near future is your reality. With each new cycle, the water is less abundant, the thunder less thunderous, and lightening, the blood of our life, less brilliant.

Anticipating this fact was our job. That’s what we did. We walked the path of the storm to its cradle. We followed the trail of the wind. But the wind has no voice. We prayed. And we prayed so much to be wrong. 
 
—excerpt from Xibalba Dreams of the West by André S. SIlva 

 

This 2012 Brazilian anthology, translated to English by Fábio Fernandes, and published first thru Kickstarter in 2018 contains nine authors not only working in the genre of solarpunk but larger scifi, speculative, alternate histories, political, thrillers, noir, and even gothic traits to these stories. From a country that does have in the real world a high majority percentage of its energy from renewable sources it is important to the canon of solarpunk that these examples are available in translation. Especially since many strike a very different tone, resisting utopian associations of the genre. And why not, the sun after all is both life-giving and destructive. Humanity also what is made up out of it for good and bad.  

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Murder, Cannibalism, Violence, Cancer, Blood, and Death

Other content notes are terrorism, global infection, religious cult, and loss of a sibling.