This is a conversation with Phoebe Wagner, co-editor of the 2017 book Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation alongside Bronte Christopher Wieland.

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Topics Discussed:

• What is Solarpunk?
• What is wrong with modern storytelling about the future?
• Playing with words (example of Permablitzing)
• Patriarchal tropes (‘men with guns’) and moving beyond them
• Is knowledge power?
• Working on the language we use
• Is there a crisis of the imagination?
• Going from fiction to non-fiction and action
• Community-building
• What’s punk about solarpunk

Works mentioned:

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Parable of the Talent by Octavia Butler
• Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel by Waubgeshig Rice
• Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy

Recommended Books:

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Cover Art by Likhain for the Sunvault book

Music by Tarabeat.