Optimistic science fiction imagining futures where technology and nature coexist sustainably and communities thrive.
Solarpunk envisions futures that are hopeful, sustainable, and equitable. Where cyberpunk imagines technology making things worse, solarpunk imagines it making things better: renewable energy, community gardens, cooperative economies, and architecture that integrates with nature. The genre insists that imagining positive futures isn't naive; it's necessary. The aesthetic is green, bright, and communal.
In a fiction landscape saturated with dystopia, solarpunk offers an alternative that's harder to write well but increasingly in demand. It challenges you to imagine solutions rather than just problems. If you're interested in writing hopeful futures without sacrificing narrative tension, solarpunk shows you how conflict can exist without the world ending.
Not labeled solarpunk but embodies its spirit: imagining the hard, practical work of building a sustainable future.
A monk and a robot in a world where nature and technology have found balance, asking whether that's enough.
Solarpunk worlds can be better without being perfect. Conflict comes from the work of maintaining a good society, not from its absence.
The story still needs characters with wants, flaws, and arcs. The setting is hopeful, but the people in it are still human.
Write a scene set 100 years from now in a thriving, sustainable city. But give your character a genuine personal problem that this better world hasn't solved: loneliness, grief, ambition, jealousy. Prove that a good world still produces interesting stories.