Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.
For an instant I read the title as ‘Solarpunk: The Gene That Dares to Dream the World Repaired’ and I don’t know if I’m supposed too feel relieved or sad I was wrong.
Probably that’s because yesterday I’ve been reading a (French) paper on trans-humanism that points out how some of their most… toxic ideas, including working on genes and DNA modifications and let machines decide for us, could become a reality even at societal level. Which is something I’m really not that thrilled with.
For an instant I read the title as ‘Solarpunk: The Gene That Dares to Dream the World Repaired’ and I don’t know if I’m supposed too feel relieved or sad I was wrong.
Probably that’s because yesterday I’ve been reading a (French) paper on trans-humanism that points out how some of their most… toxic ideas, including working on genes and DNA modifications and let machines decide for us, could become a reality even at societal level. Which is something I’m really not that thrilled with.