I kind of think that the reason why solarpunk hasn’t taken off is because solarpunks don’t like it when you crowd out their aesthetic with anything so vulgar as a plot.
Actually, you know what? Fuck it.
WRITING CHALLENGE: A hard-boiled detective story set in a solarpunk society, circa 2100. Proposed tagline: “It’s hard to be noir when it’s so fucking sunny.”
PARAMETERS:
- Science fiction rather than fantasy. Nothing unambiguously supernatural.
- The society must be central to the plot: its mores, its modes of production, its culture.
- The society must come across as markedly preferable to the one in which we currently live, but it should have its own problems
- The society must be an extrapolation from our own. No alternate histories.
PRIZE:
- The off chance of actually helping to jumpstart a genre/movement that has been revving its electric motor in place for the last 15 years.
- I’ll probably read it at some point if you tag me.