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Not taking a photo, but here are mine:
The Ministry for the Future
I'm With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet
Termination Shock
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
American War (Omar El Akkad)
Books that I want to read but haven't:
Petroleum Papers
Seveneves
Parable of the Sower (Butler)
The Language of Climate Politics (Guenther)
The Deluge (Markley)
Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes)
The Big Myth (Oreskes)
@zd9 @vudu
First, yes everything by Octavia Butler is awesome!
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Second, as a warning, imho, parable of the sower is beautiful but pretty harsh- painful. The following one, parable of the talents follows the story arcs into a bit more inspiring (hopeful?) direction, with some more kinda astonishingly correct predictions, and a lot deeper look into the beautiful of how society could be ...
Yep that's what I've heard about Parable of the Sower but all the more reason to read it. I work on a cluster called Butler named after her so apparently she's pretty good.
I personally do not believe Parable of the Sower is solarpunk because (for me) it does not demonstrate possible hopeful and sustainable futures.
@vudu Yes that's what i said above. but that's why i mentioned the sequel (parable of the talents) which imho very much does demonstrate that beautiful potential.