Any book recommendations?

@syl · 9 months ago

Any book recommendations?

poVoq · 9 months ago

[email protected] has a few good book recommendations already.

Otherwise: Becky Chambers seems to be popular as an author lately.

@syl · edit-2 9 months ago

Any specific book recommendation by Becky Chambers?

SarahV · 9 months ago

@syl @poVoq the Monk and Robot series is fantastic. Also recommend A Half-Built Garden and The Terraformers.

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

I highly recommend The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.

SarahV · 9 months ago

@syl https://wiki.futurelab.social/en/TheLibrary is a good place to start :)

@syl · 9 months ago

Thank you!

BTW, you have a typo on your first page/home page. It says “compasion” when it should be “compassion”

SarahV · 9 months ago

@syl thanks!

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

If you’re looking for theory, The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin is where it’s at

Any sci fi novel by Ursula K. le Guin will have solarpunk elements, especially The Dispossessed

gmoke · 9 months ago

@Lyrata @syl My notes on Bookchin’s The Ecology of Freedom are at https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-ecology-of-freedom.html

@[email protected] · 9 months ago

Interesting… what made you think The dispossessed has solarpunk elements? Obviously anarchist but I feel like it doesn’t have much focus on balance with the natural world, just in how the inhabitants of Anarres feel like the people on Urras have an actual planet and treat it like shit while they have a deserted planet and try as hard as they can to be In balance with it.

Edmond Dantesk · 9 months ago

Ministry for the future, by Kim Stanley Robinson

@[email protected] · edit-2 9 months ago

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow post scarcity economy (sci fi)