solarpunk
English
Etymology
solar + -punk, modeled after cyberpunk. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
solarpunk (uncountable)
- A subgenre of speculative fiction that focuses on community, sustainability, technology powered by renewable energy, and a free and egalitarian society.
- Coordinate term: biopunk
- 2015, Evelyn Deshane, Beyond Monsters and Myths: The Transgender Future and Progress Narrative in Speculative Fiction:
- In a short blog written for the LGBT magazine Vitality, Claudie Arsenault explains that “solarpunk is all about envisioning a positive future, deeply rooted in sustainability, community, and acceptance.”
- 2017, Marisha Knutson, Summus Deus: A Collection of Short Stories (Honors Thesis, Portland State Univeristy):
- “Letters to Lovelace” takes place before the “revelation” as mentioned by Novice Broder in “Moss Piglets.” and is pre-greentech, but is the catalyst for the founding of their solarpunk world.
- 2017, Paul March-Russell, “Organic Systems: Environments, Bodies and Cultures in Science Fiction, Birkbeck College London, 16 September 2017”, in Foundation, volume 46, number 128:
- Lastly (although actually the first paper on the panel), Rhys Williams explored the merits and limitations of the emerging sub-genre of 'solarpunk'.
- 2017 June, Sally Adee, “The power of good”, in New Scientist, volume 234, number 3129:
- Most of my novels, I think, are actually fun because I'm doing realism in a way the world needs. As for anyone picking up the mantle, there's a group of young writers who call themselves solarpunk, and what they're trying is all about adaptation.
- 2023 February 2, “Newly Published, From Climate Fiction to a Lost Congolese Princess”, in The New York Times:
- Drawing from literary movements like Afrofuturism, hopepunk and solarpunk, this collection of 12 short stories approaches climate change with hope for the radically different futures humans might create.
See also
- cli-fi
Further reading
solarpunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia