AlinaLeonova, to random
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You can still get a signed copy of with a personal message and a beautiful bookmark, now with 25% discount 🎉

Time is running out though because I'm leaving sometime at the end of next week and will be traveling & unable to send it for the next few months. So, if you wanted it as a gift for yourself or someone, now is the perfect time!
Gumroad: https://alinaleonova.gumroad.com/l/wildflowerselectricbeastswithbookmark
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1606610582/a-signed-sci-fi-book-with-a-beautiful

A bookmark in the open book. The bookmark is similar to the book cover, showing a dark-skinned woman and a light-skinned man standing back to back. There are wires and electronics visible under the man's skin on his head and neck. Flowers and plants separate them.
A photo of me singing my book for a reader. Only the page and a part of my hand are visible. I’ve written „To Fabia from Alina” and started writing the next line.
Back cover with strange flowers and futuristic buildings on it. Blurb: Two species of humans — one technologically advanced and one living in nature — have coexisted peacefully on their home planet for over a century. But when an ancient treaty is breached, devastation follows. Balika has always felt like an outsider. When tragedy strikes, she is left without a reason to remain with her tribe. Looking for a place where she can belong, she leaves the familiar forest and ventures into the desert to bond with a mythical animal through music. But her forgotten life calls her back when she discovers an unexpected threat to her land. Sammah works long hours as an experience developer and returns to his tiny apartment alone. He suffers from anxiety and spends most of his time in the virtual world. He opens up to a friendship with a colleague, but just when things start to look up, he gets trapped in a strange and dangerous affair. He might either lose himself, or the only person he truly cares about. Struggling to make the right choices, they get pulled into a brewing disaster. Their worlds are about to collide, and their paths are fated to cross. Caught on different sides of the conflict, Balika and Sammah take up the fight in their own ways. If they want to save what they love most, they must risk everything. Will that be enough?

owlislost, to bookstodon
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Hey there good people of Let’s hear about what you’re ! I have this stack of I grabbed from the and I am also reading this excellent about https://www.versobooks.com/products/145-red-rosa @bookstodon

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JAJablonski,
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@owlislost @bookstodon Doing a bit of escapism here this weekend via Becky Chambers Wayfarer series.

Do you want to go on adventures in a Solarpunk world?? Do you want to write your own story?

It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Nowhere is this more visible than on the shelves of game shops, where our choices for the future are dystopia, apocalypse, and space. Fully Automated is an open source tabletop RPG project developing a free game meant to provide for solarpunk what Dungeons...

1sabelR, to solarpunk in Do you want to go on adventures in a Solarpunk world?? Do you want to write your own story?
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@andrewrgross Thank you Andrew! It sounds like such a wonderful game ☀️ @theEllamo and I are relatively new to and it’s so great to connect with people who find it important too. All the Solarpunk enthusiasts seem to be on this platform and I’m loving it! We have found our people!

SallyStrange, to bookstodon
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Another post about this cool book I'm currently reading: "The Sol Majestic" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Gotta love that name.

Have you ever wondered how a top-rated restaurant might function on a space station? Light years from any planet? Well, Ferrett Steinmetz thought about it and came up with:
-artificial gravity used to cook things using the heat generated by enormous planetary-scale pressures instead of direct heat
-stasis fields instead of fridges (duh) but also speeded-up time field used to sneak a week's worth of work into an hour
-an alien sourdough culture that MIGHT be sentient

All of this is an excellent backdrop for a story of a young boy finding (gay) love, seeking independence from his parents, and exploring questions of philosophy, truth, capitalism, and marketing. It's not , but it has that homey vibe.

Btw, you can follow me on bookwyrm, I'm @SallyStrange and I read a lot.

https://bookwyrm.social/book/452604/s/the-sol-majestic

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dancingindystopia, to ksiazki Polish
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Cześć!

Mam poczucie, że nie pisałam tu całe wieki... Ale dziś przychodzę to nadrobić! Wróciłam na bloga, by opowiedzieć trochę o pierwszych dwóch miesiącach doktoratu – miałam potrzebę wygadania się, okej? – i podzielić się prezentacją z konferencji VICFA 2023 o serii 🌱Monk and Robot🌱 autorstwa Becky Chambers. Bardzo polecam tę część wpisu, a na zachętę wrzucam przykładowe slajdy z prezentacji 😊"

Aaa, jak dobrze jest znowu pisać tak dla siebie! Nawet nie wiecie.

https://19czwartych.art.blog/2023/11/27/doktoraty-i-roboty/

@ksiazki

"But l don’t see a difference between patching yourself with something you find Ry out in the wilds and whar Leroy’s offering here.” “And perhaps there is no difference,” Mosscap said. “But I don't know. I don't know how I feel about having an organic component. Part of me thinks ‘ that would be simply marvelous. [..] But then... would I be changing something fundamental about my nature?”
Monk & Robot A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Tor.com, 2021 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Tor.com, 2023 Monje y Robot (tłumaczenie hiszpańskie), Crononauta, 2023
Traditionally, self-reflexive control over life is reserved for humans, whereas the mere unfolding of biological sequences is for nonhumans. Given that the concept of “the human” was colonized by phallogocentrism, it has come to be identified with male, white, heterosexual, Christian, property-owning, standard-language-speaking citizens. Zoe marks the outside of this vision of the subject, in spite of the efforts of evolutionary theory to strike a new relationship with the nonhuman. Classical philosophy is resolutely on the side of a dialogue with the bio-logical. Nomadic subjectivity, by contrast, is in love with zoe. It's about the posthuman as becoming animal, becoming other, becoming insect—trespassing all metaphysical boundaries. Ultimately, it leads to becoming imperceptible and to fading, with death as just another sequence in time. Therefore, some of these “bits of life” effects are very closely related to that aspect of life which, though it goes by the name of death, is nevertheless an integral part of the bios/zoe process.

weebdeluxe, to bookstodon
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The Solarpunk short story collection I'm part of has been released yesterday at the biggest bookfair of Luxembourg. It has been a surprising success and I think the first edition will be sold out by the end of today. It's only 100 copies, but it was very hard to gage how big interest would be.

I'm very proud to be part of that first issue and hope I make it into the second one as well...

If you want to check out what the Science-Fiction and Fantasy writers of this small country can produce, go to https://anerwelten.lu

It's completely free and a lot of stories are in English.

@bookstodon

narF, to random
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Watching the conference from Green Software Foundation.

It looked promising when I registered but unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that it should really be called Greenwashing Software... 😞

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narF,
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If you want to help, join an advocacy group, go to your city council meeting, join your , go read about , start a in your front yard! Learn to your clothes and appliances instead of buying new ones.

You don't have the time or mental energy to do that? Of course you don't! We all work too much! That's the world we live in. So quit your job! Find a better job!

weebdeluxe, to bookstodon
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Just supported the Solarpunk Magazine.

Ever since Amazon changeed how they handle subscriptions to magazines, it's important to support magazines in other ways.

Please check it out

@bookstodon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/solarpunk-magazine-2024?ref=thanks-copy

seanbala, to random
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I made a pledge on Kickstarter for "Solarpunk Magazine" 2024 with only a few hours to go - I've loved reading the magazine this year and am really happy to support them!

Got waylaid by all the great perks but
ended up going with the collection because I loved the short story "Midnight Serenade" by @jendiagammon (@jendiagammon) and I wanted to read their novel "The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern" - very excited!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/solarpunkmagazine/solarpunk-magazine-2024/

Snoopy, (edited ) to france in [Jeu collectif] Imaginer la ville de demain (proposition)
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@Snoopy Woah ! Ça me fait plaisir ! :D Merci à tous et toutes ! C'est décidé ! Pour célèbrer nos 3420 posts sur jlai.lu et 1000 posts sur c/France Notre communauté jlai.lu aura son serveur et sa ville :D

Nous ferons un sondage pour choisir la ville de France et proposer sa version solarpunk. :)

Étant un sysadmin novice, si quelqu'un de plus pointu sur ces questions connait bien la bande passante et config pour 50-100 joueurs et joueuses, je veux bien être guidé :)

arielkroon, to academicchatter
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In my latest article for Unsustainable Magazine, I unapologetically brought my research on to bear on our current . I hope it contributes to the discussion of how we react to the in a good way.

https://www.unsustainablemagazine.com/dread-of-climate-collapse/

@academicchatter

CuriousMagpie, to bookstodon
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I just finished The Terraformers by @annaleen and went right back to the beginning to read again. Rich in characters, landscapes, action, imagination, relationships, and possibilities. Fierce and loving.
@bookstodon

KT,
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@CuriousMagpie @annaleen @bookstodon This is one of those very rare books that I borrowed from the library and then went right out to buy a copy to reread. So much to absorb, to ponder, to enjoy. The concept of non-hominims as “people” and all those ramifications, wow. Now I’m squinting at my cats, wondering if there’s intelligent life in there (they have no network access, so who knows?)

TexasObserver, to bookstodon
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“The only cars left in the Ward were wheelless hulks in backyards ... Only suburban people or rich folks had cars anymore—and those were all shiny, hyperway-compatible electrical vehicles.”

Sim Kern's The Free People's Village is set in an alternative where Al Gore won the presidency and a ”War on Climate Change” began. But, in this excerpt, it's clear this utopia isn't evenly distributed: https://www.texasobserver.org/free-peoples-village-book-excerpt-solarpunk-texas/

@bookstodon

arielkroon, to academicchatter
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Recently updated the page on my which has a rundown of my involvement with it and where I'm coming from. Not sure if I shared it here before, but it's taking shape into a I like.

https://arielkroon.ca/about/solarpunk/

@academicchatter @sciencefiction @hydroponictrash @joey @solarpunkcast

arielkroon, to academicchatter
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Recently updated the page on my which has a rundown of my involvement with it and where I'm coming from. Not sure if I shared it here before, but it's taking shape into a I like.

https://arielkroon.ca/about/solarpunk/

@academicchatter @sciencefiction @hydroponictrash @joey @solarpunkcast

solarpunkcast, to random
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Asking scholars or social scientists working w/ the internet...

I've been a for a while now, but how would I do research on the community itself? I want a "vibe check" on what people are talking about, the sorts of arguments we tend to have, what texts/theories/people we canonize. I follow a lot of folks, but that's a mix of my interests+auto recommendations. Any way to get a view driven by my research questions, not The Algorithm?

?

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willelm,
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@coguelin @seanbala @bookstodon Yeah reading those books was like sipping tea by a warm fire. They just so comfy and nice. It was a welcome change of pace and it opened me up to a lot more books. Good gateway read

skiffyandfanty, to random
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If you could recommend ONE book in the subgenre, which book would that be? Why?

arndell,
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@skiffyandfanty A psalm for the wild built

raemariz, to bookstodon
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Finally Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy. Consistently startled that it was published in 1976. Feels extremely relevant. So many things things touted as new ideas in contemporary --queer communities, ideals, and centering marginalized perspectives--are all here and have existed woven into story form for nearly 50 years.

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