Ich suche utopische Kurzgeschichten oder Romane, die in einer Nachhaltigen und Postfossilen Gesellschaft spielen, welche auch wir zeitnah erreichen könnten. Gerne Teilen! #solarpunk#scifi
In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.
A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.
You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.
It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.
I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon#Bookstodon#Scifi#ScienceFiction
@Jennifer@bookstodon The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells might be an option. It’s a story of a security cyborg in an interstellar civilization, learning to be a person and form relationships with others. It’s lighter, more comedic, but it’s hard scifi that shares the Expanse’s #hopepunk theme, of the world having bad actors in it, but most people just being good folks doing their best. And deals (lightly) with questions of sentience and personhood, like Mountain.
Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.
America's first sustainable urban agrihood in Detroit.
"The three-acre development has vacant land, along with occupied and abandoned homes centered around a two-acre urban garden, with more than 300 organic vegetable varieties, like lettuce, kale, and carrots, as well as a 200-tree fruit orchard, with apples, pears, plums, and cherries, a children’s sensory garden, and more."
New FREE Short Story: TOWER GIRLS 🌈🌱#solarpunk
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A cute technician keeps breaking things in her too-shiny lab, then calling a fixer in for repairs. Zita’s a certified member of the International Guild of Repair Workers, Local 772, and she’s certain this hot girl is breaking her toys on purpose. But why? Something very sexy but very weird is going on…
I was wandering around a nearby town and found a lovely little used bookstore. After slowly perusing the shelves I settled on copies of #Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge - grandmothers of #hopepunk.
The bookseller and I chatted about my time working in a used bookstore in #Butte#Montana and the #LaborHistory there.
It was a good day 🌟 @bookstodon
Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?
I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!
@shom I'll second the recommendation of Ministry for the Future. Some others I enjoyed:
The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen Lord;
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers;
Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling;
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu.
Check out @bookstodon posts tagged #SolarPunk or #HopePunk for more antidotes to dystopian sci-fi! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk