#Brontë Christopher Wieland

[thoughtportal]

Almanac for the Anthropocene collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more—all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action.

Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice, Almanac for the Anthropocene unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

Reframing Narratives With Ecocriticism, With Dr Jenny Kerber

In this episode, Ariel discusses the topic of ecocriticism with Dr Jenny Kerber, Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.

What is ecocriticism? Why is it important, especially for environmental activists and solarpunks, as a narrative reframing device? Solarpunks work very closely with speculation and imagination and as architects of the narratives by which we live our lives, it helps to have tools like ecocriticism at our disposal.

Join Ariel and Dr. Kerber to think through terms like “wilderness” and “nature” and “the Anthropocene”. How do we hold on to hope, despite critical engagement with the dark side of our environmental narratives? 

References:

A bit more about the WLU Land Acknowledgement

Dr Kerber’s profile at Wilfrid Laurier U

“The Trouble with Wilderness” by William Cronon

 Elizabeth May

Kerber, Jenny. "Tracing One Warm Line: Climate Stories and Silences in Northwest Passage Tourism." Journal of Canadian Studies 55.4 (July 2022): 271-303.

Timothy Clark, The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

Kate Soper, What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human

David Huebert's Chemical Valley

Lord Byron's "Darkness"

Don McKay, Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry and Wilderness

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland, Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures

[arielkroon]

Review: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures

I wrote a review of an excellent edited collection of solarpunk essays. You should read it here, and then go read the book. #solarpunk #review #anthropocene #writing #ISLE #journal

I wrote a review of an excellent edited collection of solarpunk essays. You should read it here, and then go read the book. Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures. Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland. West Virginia UP, 2022. 208pp. Paperback $26.99. Ebook $26.99.

[the-wanderers-world]

Finally got to open the gifts from my dad a few days ago, and I couldn't be happier! I got some books! Like:

Sun vault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland

A Psalm for the Wild But by Becky Chambers

And

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

I am going to have a good time reading 😊!

[vijyalakshmiharish]

Book Review: Sunvault - Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

Book Review: Sunvault – Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation

Speculative fiction, SFF, in particular is increasingly becoming concerned with issues like climate change and sustainability. Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is a brand new anthology by Upper Rubber Boot, which consists of short fiction, poetry and artwork centered around these themes. As Andrew Dincher says in his Foreword to the book, “solarpunk, a new movement in SF that…

[solis-salutis]

Nine sci-fi subgenres to help you understand the future

#5: Solarpunk

“What does ‘the good life’ look like in a steady-state, no-growth, totally sustainable society?”

According to “On The Need for New Futures,” a 2012 article on Solarpunk.net, that’s the question this movement—which melds speculative fiction, art, fashion and eco-activism—seeks to answer. In the same post, Solarpunk’s anonymous founders warn, “We are starved for visions of the future that will sustain us, and give us something to hope for.” Yet what if we dreamed differently? What if we tried to answer a separate question: What does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?

As Olivia Rosane puts it, what if we tried to “cancel the apocalypse?”

Solarpunk is the opposite of cyberpunk’s nihilism, offering stories, the founders say, about “ingenuity, positive creation, independence, and community.” These narratives are often framed around infrastructure as both a form of resistance and as the foundations for a new way of life—the eponymous solar panels feature heavily.

What to read

Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars trilogy (beginning with Red Mars,1992)

“I’ve always written utopian science fiction,” says Robinson. He’s one of the best world-builders in contemporary sci-fi, and these stories of terraforming Mars are super worked-through, both technically and sociopolitically. They describe a future in which humans just might be able to achieve ecosystem balance.

Cory Doctorow, Walkaway (2018)

This is far less utopian than Robinson’s work, but perhaps, quietly, just as hopeful. In a world wracked by climate change and fully captured by corporate power, most people live grinding lives of toil in “Default” cities. Yet 3-D printing has created post-scarcity, and so Doctorow’s trio of characters simply secede and walk away into the lands in between, and start to rebuild the world. “The point of Walkaway is the first days of a better nation,” one says.

Check out Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (2017, eds. Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland), the first English-language collection of solarpunk fiction . For stories from Brazil and Portugal, there’s Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World (2014 / English 2018, ed. Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro).

[solarpunks]

World Weaver Press has acquired the rights to publish an English translation of the science fiction anthology Solarpunk – Histórias Ecológicas e Fantásticas em um Mundo Sustentável, originally published in 2012 by Editora Draco in São Paulo, Brazil. Solarpunk is an anthology of optimistic science fiction stories compiled by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, which envision a world run on renewable energies, featuring nine authors from Brazil and Portugal including Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. Costa, Gabriel Cantareira, Daniel I. Dutra, André S. Silva, Roberta Spindler, and Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro. The anthology will be translated from Portuguese to English by Fábio Fernandes, and publication is expected in the first half of 2018. Portuguese artist José Baetas will create interior illustrations for the anthology. 

A Kickstarter campaign will run during the summer of 2017 to assist with translation costs!

ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGIST

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro had two novelettes published in Brazilian Asimov’s: hard SF “Mythic Aliens” and “The Ethics of Treason”; the latter was the first alternative history story in Brazilian and Portuguese science fiction. His alternative history novelette “The Vampire of New Holland” won the Nova Award in 1996, while his SF novelette “The Daughter of the Predator” won the Nautilus in 1999. His main short fiction collections are: Other Histories…, The Vampire of New Holland, Other Brazils, Taikodom: Chronicles and The Best of Carla Cristina Pereira. Gerson has published four novels so far: Xochiquetzal: An Aztec Princess Among the Incas, The Guardian of Memory, The Adventures of the Vampire of Palmares and Strsangers in Paradise. He has edited eight short fiction anthologies so far: Phantastica Brasiliana, How Lustful my Alien Girl Was!, Vaporpunk, Dieselpunk, Solarpunk, Fantastic Erotica 1, Super-Heroes, and Dinosaurs.  Beyond the science fiction borders, he published Vita Vinum Est!: History of Wine in the Roman World.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Fábio Fernandes lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He has published two books so far, an essay on William Gibson’s fiction, A Construção do Imaginário Cyber, and a cyberpunk novel, Os Dias da Peste (both in Portuguese). Also a translator, he is responsible for the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of several SF novels, including Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and A Clockwork Orange. His short stories have been published online in Brazil, Portugal, Romania, the UK, New Zealand, and the USA, and also in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded and Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction (2011), The Apex Book of World SF, Vol 2, Stories for Chip. He co-edited (with Djibril al-Ayad) the postcolonial anthology We See a Different Frontier. He is a graduate of Clarion West (class of 2013), and a slush reader for Clarkesworld Magazine.

WHAT IS SOLARPUNK?

Solarpunk is an emerging subgenre of optimistic science fiction that imagines the radical possibility that we might not destroy ourselves and our planet (or that if we nearly do, we'll get it together after that). Like Cli-Fi, eco-speculation, and eco-weird, solarpunk engages with issues of climate change, renewable energies, and the politics of sustainability, and explores the implications of those changes through a human lens. While other types of climate fiction usually present a bleak, dystopian, or apocalyptic vision of the future, solarpunk is hopeful, often portraying unique adaptations to ecological challenges.

While there has been much discussion about solarpunk as an aesthetic, there are few defining texts that put these ideas into practice—which is one reason we felt it was so important to bring this Brazilian anthology to an English-speaking readership. Many of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson fit the description, especially Pacific Edge (1990) and New York 2140 (2017). Other anthologies of solarpunk short fiction include Wings of Renewal, edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda Pierson (2015), and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (forthcoming 2017).

WWP editor-in-chief Sarena Ulibarri blogged about solarpunk last year, so if you're curious, check out her blog post The Brighter Futures of Solarpunk

Thank you to the team at Editora Draco for this opportunity!

(Via World Weaver Press Acquires English Rights To Brazilian Solarpunk Anthology)

[sunvaultantho]

PW liked us, folks! 

[solarpunkvegan]

WHAT IS SOLARPUNK?

“ Solarpunk is an emerging subgenre of optimistic science fiction that imagines the radical possibility that we might not destroy ourselves and our planet (or that if we nearly do, we'll get it together after that). Like Cli-Fi, eco-speculation, and eco-weird, solarpunk engages with issues of climate change, renewable energies, and the politics of sustainability, and explores the implications of those changes through a human lens. While other types of climate fiction usually present a bleak, dystopian, or apocalyptic vision of the future, solarpunk is hopeful, often portraying unique adaptations to ecological challenges.

While there has been much discussion about solarpunk as an aesthetic, there are few defining texts that put these ideas into practice—which is one reason we felt it was so important to bring this Brazilian anthology to an English-speaking readership. Many of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson fit the description, especially Pacific Edge (1990) and New York 2140 (2017). Other anthologies of solarpunk short fiction include Wings of Renewal, edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda Pierson (2015), and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (forthcoming 2017).

WWP editor-in-chief Sarena Ulibarri blogged about solarpunk last year, so if you're curious, check out her blog post

The Brighter Futures of Solarpunk

 For more on solarpunk as a movement and an aesthetic, check out

Solarpunks.Tumblr.com  ” - https://goo.gl/SPMiu2

[ninja-muse]

Bildungsroman

Book Discussion Challenge, April 5

When I saw this prompt, I could only name two books I’d read that I thought qualified and I didn’t want to talk about either, so I went to the Wikipedia page to see what else was out there. Still don’t want to talk about any of them, but I thought a “read/TBR” list might be fun.

bolded = read italics = want to read

Precursors

Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, by Ibn Tufail (12th century)

Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach (early 13th century)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (late 14th century)

Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

17th century

Simplicius Simplicissimus, by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1668)

The Adventures of Telemachus, by François Fénelon (1699)

18th century

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749)

Candide, by Voltaire (1759)

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759)

Emile, or On Education, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763)

Geschichte des Agathon, by Christoph Martin Wieland (1767)

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1795–96)

19th century

Emma, by Jane Austen (1815)

The Red and The Black, by Stendhal (1830)

The Captain's Daughter, by Alexander Pushkin (1836)

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (1847)[21]

Pendennis, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848–1850)

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850)

Green Henry, by Gottfried Keller (1855)[22]

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1861)

Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert (1869)

The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (1883)

The Story of an African Farm, by Olive Schreiner (1883)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884)

Pharaoh, by Bolesław Prus (1895)

What Maisie Knew, by Henry James (1897)

20th century

The Confusions of Young Törless, by Robert Musil (1906)

Martin Eden, by Jack London (1909)

The Book of Khalid, by Ameen Rihani (1911)

Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier (1913)

Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence (1913)

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (1915)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce (1916)

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth by Hermann Hesse (1919)

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)

Pather Panchali, by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1929)

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

The Green Years by A. J. Cronin (1944)

The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger (1951)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (for plot character Eustace Scrubb) by C. S. Lewis (1952)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

In the Castle of My Skin, by George Lamming (1953)

Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth (1959)

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (1959)

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (1960)

Dune, by Frank Herbert (1965)

The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton (1967)

A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (1969)

Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya (1972)

The World According to Garp, by John Irving (1978)

The Discovery of Slowness, by Sten Nadolny (1983)

Bright Lights, Big City, by Jay McInerney (1984)

Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (1985)

The Cider House Rules, by John Irving (1985)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson (1985)

Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami (1987)

A Prayer For Owen Meany, by John Irving (1989)

Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry (1989)

Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder (1991)

English Music, by Peter Ackroyd (1992)

The Gods Laugh on Mondays, by Reza Khoshnazar (1995)

About a Boy, by Nick Hornby (1998)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (1999)

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (2000)

21st century

The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd (2002)

The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (2002)

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (2003)

The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem (2003)

Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

Looking for Alaska, by John Green (2005)

Indecision, by Benjamin Kunkel (2005)

Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell (2006)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (2007)

Indignation, by Philip Roth (2008).

Submarine, by Joe Dunthorne (2008)

Breath, by Tim Winton (2008)

Paper Towns, by John Green (2008)

The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano (2008)

The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (2013)

Come and Take It, by Cody WIlson (2016)

So … I want to read more than I’ve read, for sure. What about you guys?

[gigiglorious]

Review | Sunvault, edited by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland

Review | Sunvault, edited by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland

Title: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation Editors: Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland Published by: Upper Rubber Boot Books My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Where I got the book: Netgalley ARC “Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is…