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Show me your solarpunk bookshelf (slrpnk.net)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Not taking a photo, but here are mine:

  • The Ministry for the Future

  • I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

  • Termination Shock

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  • American War (Omar El Akkad)

Books that I want to read but haven't:

  • Petroleum Papers

  • Seveneves

  • Parable of the Sower (Butler)

  • The Language of Climate Politics (Guenther)

  • The Deluge (Markley)

  • Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes)

  • The Big Myth (Oreskes)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    @zd9 @vudu First, yes everything by Octavia Butler is awesome! !!! Second, as a warning, imho, parable of the sower is beautiful but pretty harsh- painful. The following one, parable of the talents follows the story arcs into a bit more inspiring (hopeful?) direction, with some more kinda astonishingly correct predictions, and a lot deeper look into the beautiful of how society could be ...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Yep that's what I've heard about Parable of the Sower but all the more reason to read it. I work on a cluster called Butler named after her so apparently she's pretty good.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I personally do not believe Parable of the Sower is solarpunk because (for me) it does not demonstrate possible hopeful and sustainable futures.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Looking at that list, you might also be interested in the novel Walkaway.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    @SargonOfACAB @zd9 Yes walkaway was good- interesting. It used an entertaining plot, chars, setting, etc to really explore some alternative methods of political/ societal functioning. I'd love to listen to folks (smarter than me) compare or even role play thru that book and some of his others and some cultures from Becky Chambers work and Octavia Butler's and LeGuin and Starhawk's and so many others...

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    @zd9 @vudu ReMinistry for futureI like the researched science of it, but it had some real problemsLong read but worth reading- well explained analysis! alxd.org/ministry-for-the-futu

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Wow you weren't kidding, that's a long read. Without reading that link yet, I did think it was a bit hard to follow and the first time I kind of fizzled out around half way through the book. I think the actual narrative techniques made it less engaging than it should've been.

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