Solarpunk has been picking up in popularity in the past few years.

Like in this… weirdly gorgeous yogurt ad.

This one was a Hugo nominee five years ago or so, and a real physical copy has been sitting on my bookshelf forever.

Through no fault of my own, I’ve accidentally stumbled into a themed reading list. It wasn’t on purpose, but definitely my last three books have explored themes of memory, belief, and hazardous information.

so, Tiff has decided she’s doing an art challenge for october

and she made this yesterday

“it reminds me of those old 60s sci fi novel covers” she says

anyways when she woke up, someone had snuck this into her office

I’m not sure what there’s left for cyberpunk fiction to offer, there’s already five corporations that own everything, powered skateboards, portable hacking devices, and a ubiquitous net, that’s just “fiction” now.

you could have a story where an enterprising hacker steals millions of dollars from an idealistic but foolish autonomous collective of bankers who put their trust in an untrustworthy distributed ledger protocol and you’d have to check first whether to file that under “science fiction” or “documentary”

say what you want about solarpunk at least it’s a vision of a future without fucking “creds”