I read a lot of things and often want to share them to readers, so I’ve decided to curate them into thematic lists for crossposting every once in a while. Once I fill up the bucket with at least five links, I share them here.
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🧵 10 Hopepunk Sci-Fi Books That Will Restore Your Faith In The Future
The Mary Sue || June 23, 2025
With the ever present threat of World War Three looming on the horizon, it’s hard to have faith in humanity’s future. Many sci-fi authors tend to pile on the pessimism, what with all their predictions of grimdark futures where super-corporations wage dehumanizing interstellar wars adding more meaninglessness to the already empty void. And yet, like a yellow sun rising on a distant planet, a small crop of sci-fi authors promise a… READ MORE
🧵Hopepunk
Wikipedia|| n.d.
Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of grimdark. Works in the hopepunk subgenre are about characters fighting for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.
Origin
In 2017, fantasy author Alexandra Rowland proposed the term hopepunk as the opposite of grimdark, which is a subgenre that is particularly dystopian, amoral, or violent.[1][2] Their initial Tumblr post, “The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on,” received over 50,000 comments.[3]
Rowland expanded the concept further in an article on the subject, “One Atom of Justice, One Molecule of Mercy, and the Empire of Unsheathed Knives.”[4] As more people engaged with the concept, the definition of hopepunk… READ MORE
🧵Everything ‘Punk
BK Bass || December 5, 2023
When it comes to studying subgenres of speculative fiction, we find some of them fall neatly into hierarchies and groupings. High and low fantasy are obviously major aspects of the fantasy genre, while hard and soft science fiction are the same for science fiction. Another grouping of genres that seems like it should be as simple is the ‘punk genres, a growing subset of speculative fiction with labels that end in “punk”.
In this essay, we’ll explore just what makes something ‘punk and take a closer look at some of the more prominent examples of ‘punk fiction… READ MORE
🧵Solarpunk: A Container for More Fertile Futures
thejaymo || November 7, 2023
Since 2012, solarpunks.net has had the tagline, “At once a vision of the future, a thoughtful provocation, and an achievable lifestyle. In progress …”
In 2016, solarpunkanarchists.com described solarpunk as “Practical Utopianism.”Sometimes solarpunk is defined as imagining stories “en route to a better world.” My own go-to description is “a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion, technology and activism that seeks to answer and embody the question: What does a sustainable civilization look like and how can we get there?”
There is no one fixed future, given the choice between ‘the only solution’ and ‘possible options,’ solarpunk will always choose… READ MORE
🧵Gnostic Nightfall : Lunarpunk
Cyberpunk Future || August 27, 2024
In the evolving narrative of speculative futures, Lunarpunk emerges as a mystical counterpart to the bright, optimistic vision of Solarpunk. While Solarpunk imagines a future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature under the warm embrace of the sun, Lunarpunk explores a world where the moonlight guides us into deeper connections with the earth, the self, and the cosmos. It is a movement that delves into the… READ MORE
🧵Poseur: Books That Embody The Punk Ethos
LitHub || September 23, 2022
When kids tag “PUNKS DEAD” on a wall they’re contradicting themselves because defacing public property is punk. Punk rock, on the other hand, is deceased. It was a cultural movement in a specific moment which has been through so many nostalgia-ridden revivals and facelifts we can’t even recognize that bitch anymore. Sick new bands (Amyl and the Sniffers, Destroy Boys, NIIS) are killing it, and they make punk music, but they deserve their own legacy. Does that make sense? It doesn’t have to, I know I’m right.
[TKS: Nope, punk is punk, and it’s making a comeback for a reason.]
So, though punk rock is six feet under, punk is forever. Punk existed before the term was around to describe it. (T-Rex was punk). Punk spirit survives long after you turn to dust. (Dying is punk). Punk is freedom, rebellion, the ultimate FUCK YOU. Some books have that punk vibe (reading can be punk, depending on… READ MORE