Did you really have to use AI for the picture?

Didn’t like how the plot hooks you in with Gustave & Lune having to deal with a world on the brink of the end, and then it becomes Verso & Maelle having to deal with family drama. Massive disappointment.

Expedition 33

We weren’t meant to do anything, no one exists and nothing happens for any particular reason, we are a chaotic yet structured event on the way from a big bang in a race towards the thermodynamic equilibrium and ultimately the heat death of the universe. This is a good thing, actually, because it means that you have the freedom to find your own purpose

Is this Cosmology Sartre? Astroexistentialism? I love the combination 🤩

I’m sorry but whoever made this completely missed the point of solarpunk.

It also shows how much easier it is to repackage cyberpunk and make it look new, compared to actually imagining a positive future.

I haven’t read the whole global corpus yet, but two of my favourite authors are Renan Bernardo from Brazil and Wole Talabi from Nigeria (the latter writes more scifi, but has some interesting solarpunk-adjacent stories).

In general, it’s much, much harder to find authors from the Global South because USians have such an easier time not only promoting themselves to editors & publishers, but also reaching their audiences.

Curiously, all white American authors. I wonder why this keeps happening.

It took me a while to read it because it’s written in a style I’m not used to, and it felt very rambling and messy. Despite that, I liked his rants against Heinlein, Lovecraft and Star Wars, and it conveyed quite a great point on what science fiction should be about.

Personally I’m going to use this chart to sketch factions in my solarpunk stories. It’s not a perfect diagram, but far better than the old political compass.

Esports fan here! Mainly Dota and League, but I watch the occasional CSGO tournament here and there. Which part of Finland are you going to be in with your program?

#2 has a very human-like android and it explores the meaning of passing away from a different point of view.

#5 has a fantastic use of drones, and despite not being American myself I enjoyed the many descriptions that tied back to First Nations’ cultures.

I wrote more extensively about each here (beware of spoilers!)

Update: I added EPUB formats for both Meteorina and all other short stories; I have been postponing that QoL fix for a LONG time but you finally gave me a reason to go and do it 😁

Great tip, I’ll definitely check it out!

That’s so flattering, thank you! 🥹

Your prejudice was half-right actually: tech and systems are what I really want to explore, but I use shorter stories as “experiment” to practice other aspect of storytelling too. After all, characters are the most powerful illusion spell on the reader!

What’s going to be next:

• More Meteorina adventures (surely one on Elba, maybe one on Albanian shores considering the shitshow going on with the Italian govt nowadays? Some good old satire, why not)
• Kanteletar, the stories of a public digital library founded in 2067 across four centuries of climate, geopolitical and cultural upheavals

Thank you! Let me know what you think 😋

I have other formats for the novels, but now that the Meteorina project is becoming bigger I should provide epub files too. I’ll work on adding more buttons and get back to you in a couple days!

Di fianco a ogni storia ci sono le bandierine che indicano in che lingua sono! La maggior parte sono bilingui; alcune sono solo in italiano. Simulacra Navigans, l’unica storia che avevo in inglese, è quasi a fine traduzione.

EDIT: Ho finito di tradurre Simulacra; mi ero dimenticato che anche Snowstorm e Lady Firefly erano English-only, prossimamente tradurrò anche quelle!