Solarpunk Stories

The Venturer is the world to those who are born and die aboard. Earth is distant history, the revolutionary engineers of the great long-travelling starship venerated like gods. The sparse resources of the interstellar reach are shared among the people. Everyone has a place - found through the all-important board games that rule life in a recycled universe. Cassie is a prodigy of the most revered games of all, those that train the Rangers who harvest stray asteroids from near space to feed the Venturer and its people. Against her better judgement, Cassie finds herself on a heroic mission through deadly vacuum, hundreds of kilometres from the life-giving modules of her home. However, nothing in space is as it seems. A shock discovery from beyond the black will thrust Cassie into the heart of a controversy that marks a new age of humanity, and reawakens the long-forgotten stirring of war. (cover illustration by Natalie Dombois, used without permission)

Crossing the galaxy is difficult enough; but try doing it when you're aimless, penniless, and you haven't had a good square meal in the last twenty-four hours. An Unknown Universe tale. (CW: occasional strong language.)

Thousands of years ago, the RIVENING split life on earth in two - Earthside, the reality we know, and Dahria, a hidden realm where humankind evolved in a more peaceful and humane fashion. Now Dahria's existence is about to be discovered, exposed, and exploited by nefarious Earthside interests. All looks hopeless except for Connie, an awkward young woman on Earthside, who stumbles upon the ominous plot. With the help of Peter, her reclusive 50 + year-old neighbor, Connie finds the courage to literally crawl into a new reality on a world-saving mission. In the most amazing journey of their lives, Connie and Peter fight to understand and navigate the Dahrian world and attempt to halt the steamroller of Earthside greed and destruction that's heading its way.

The Dawning and the Dreaming is an exploration into a potential near future- one characterized by sustainability, community, and hope. Several stories, each told from a different perspective, all separate and yet, much like us, linked throughout time and space.

"Chandler Wakes up and inevitably starts the cycle all over again"

When cyborg CT-19 comes across a job offer for bodyguard for the next Prince of Council he isn't sure whether he should apply or not. When he does, he soon gets involved in a game of magical battles and political intrige, together with his new employer, his mechanic and her twin brother, who is pretty damn cute if he can say so himself... This story will probably not have regularly planned updates. Cover credit: Designed by @texoticyapalli on Tumblr Based on a photo of @anniespratt on Unsplash

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Beneath a sky of stolen sunlight, Kael fights to survive in a city built on rust, rot, and broken promises. But some flames refuse to die - even in the dark.

in a solarpunk town inhabited entirely by anthrofelines in outback Australia, supplies are going missing from a farm. the question on everyone's lips? Who is THE THIEF OF MULBERRY CREEK?

"You are from Sunspot Green. Where the long wings whisper and lonely eyes gleam" With that message Hold Fast sets out in search of home in a world both like and unlike ours. What she finds instead is a dead body and what it means to belong. A short story.

Claire is 24 and has worked as a power systems engineer for the past 3 years at the WWPC. Mave is 25 and has worked as a safety inspector at the WWPC for the last 5 years. Mave and Claire have been friends for the last 2 years and have grown very close. The world wide power company (WWPC) has been in operation for the last 27 years, after its founder descovered a way to transport plasma directly from the sun to the planets surface using a solar extractor. Recently there has been reports of an illness spreading near the solar extractors. Nobody knows the cause, not till Claire stumbles upon something buried deep in the file system. Also a huge thank you to my friends and my partner for helping me gain the confidence and skills I needed to write!

The Mediterranean didn't just dry up. It turned to glass. Eighty years after the Great Fusion, the world is a jagged wasteland of shimmering silica known as the Luster. Kaelen Voss is a Trace-Reader-a scavenger who listens to the vibrations of the glass to find what the old world left behind. He knows the rules of the Luster: never stay out after dark, never ignore a C-sharp crack, and never, ever look too deep. But when Kaelen discovers a man perfectly preserved six feet beneath the translucent surface, the rules shatter. The man is holding a 21st-century burner phone. And the screen is glowing with a fresh notification. [ NEW MESSAGE: RUN ] Now, hunted by the elite of New Marseille and haunted by a signal that shouldn't exist, Kaelen must figure out how a dead man is still sending warnings-before the glass beneath his own feet gives way. In a world made of reflections, the most dangerous thing you can see is the truth.

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Book 1 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. A captivating, fresh envisioning of a climate-changed future seen from two starkly different cultural perspectives, The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond follows the paths of a runaway aristocrat, a Luddite tyrant, a spy seeking retribution, and a wandering historian unicycling north along the crumbling Boston Post Road. Winner of the Watty Award: Newcomer Category 2017 Marto Boxter is a plucky journalist with a head full of implants. He is planning a unicycle ride from his town of Reverside-on-Hudson through the climate-altered communities of New New England, posting his thoughts in real time for his interconnected followers via technological telepathy. Before he can go on tour, a wanderer named Helen arrives with secret information that throws Marto's placid world into turmoil. Miles to the south, Barnabas Yoniver IV, the leader of a Luddite town launches a plot to disrupt the life of all upgraded human beings and bring them back to the traditional economy of markets and governments. Meanwhile, rival Luddite families plot to prevent Barnabas from grabbing too much power for himself. This darkly humorous reflection of our changing world is an exploration of what it means to be human as our relationships with technology become increasingly intimate.

When Malibu's population of the working poor suddenly disappear into the desert overnight, the megacity falls into chaos without its industry. Under the cover of discord, Kim tries to wrestle control of the city from the Old Guard, while an unsuspecting adversary in the Salton Sea threatens to unravel her plans. Trigger Warnings: Medical Horror, Depictions of Violence Cover Photograph by Natalia Laurel

Book 2 of the Wakeful Wanderer's series. Book 1 is The Wakeful Wanderer's Guide to New New England & Beyond. That's a good place to start. It's available here. The America of our near-future is divided across socio-economic and technological-philosophical lines. The Traditionalists eschew any and all post-human technologies in favor of tangible materials. They uphold strict hierarchical structures based on religion, family, and leadership. They long for the return of the global markets wiped out by a world-shaking disaster called The Great Tide. The Interconnected stand in stark opposition to their ways, living without property, family, or religion, and modifying their bodies with the help of new and invasive technologies. They speak to each other wordlessly, employing a technological telepathy they call 'thexting' to communicate mind to mind, and embrace the gifting economy of Merit to maintain their post-scarcity lifestyles. Marto, the traveling Interconnected historian, has exiled himself to protect the ones he loves from his dark secret. In his absence, Helen, a runaway Traditionalist aristocrat, struggles to find her place among the Interconnected, unwilling to return to her cruel family. Reyleena, the former head of security in the Interconnected town of Reverside, has returned to a life of quiet solitude, broken occasionally by the impositions of The Other, an omnipresent AI, who will not leave her alone. Meanwhile, Barnabas, the Traditionalist leader of New Atlantic, fights to return to his township in the wake of an attack. Nora, his sister, remains in Reverside and must come to terms with her new life in captivity.

Danny wakes up after his seventeenth birthday party went horribly wrong... and he will never be the same again, turns out neither will the planet.

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Mari never wanted to be a leader, but now she's stuck at a critical point in New Eden, a place that's supposed to be perfect. Fed up with the limits of this utopia, she breaks away, setting out on a journey that will change her life. Her adventure leads her to Megalopolis, a forbidden city full of dark secrets and dangerous ideas. As Mari gets allured by this place's offers, she starts to uncover truths that could shake up her home forever. What will she find out? Will her discoveries save New Eden or destroy it? Join Mari every Thursday in 'Freeway Fare,' a gripping tale of rebellion, finding yourself, and the high price of freedom. Watch as she unravels the mysteries of utopia and freedom, challenging what we all thought we knew.