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6.2: Publishing Eco Horror & Solarpunk with Selena Middleton of Stelliform Press

This week on Solarpunk Presents Podcast, Ariel chats with Selena Middleton, Publisher and Editor of Stelliform Press, all about publishing eco-fiction. What is eco-horror, and how does it relate to solarpunk fiction? What are the hallmarks of a good solarpunk story, according to Selena? How does history fit into visions of the future, and what does character have to do with it? Join us as we discuss all this and more.

https://youtu.be/S4TOt5vs6fM?si=ljarUfTt_JNRzUAJ

PS: Check the video description for links to the books we talk about. I haven't been including links in these toots because they tend to take the place of the link that I want to highlight, but clicking through will easily get you there. Enjoy the episode!

#Episode #Season5 #YouTube #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #solarpunk #Ecofiction #Ecohorror #publishing #genre #SF #ScienceFiction @StelliformPress #StelliformPress #CanadianSF #AmReading #AmWriting #SolarpunkStorytelling #SolarpunkStories #SolarpunkFiction

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own @arielkroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

#solarpunk #solarpunkpresentspodcast #fiction #scienceFiction #apocalypse #Postapocalypse #academia #SFscholarship #SciFi #SciFiScholarship #SFStories #FeministScienceFiction #storytelling #SolarpunkStorytelling #Utopia #FutureFiction #PositiveFutures

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=9h6QeKJ8Ghf0k6G-