I’m delighted you enjoyed your visit to New Tollan. I recommend Solarpunk Creatures and Solarpunk Summers anthologies.

Thank you! Will get to work on the next story soon.

Thanks for beta reading. That is essential to the writing process.

Illustrator Bochica uses knowledge to make the world a better place, to help people express the utopia inside them. He is a social muralist, who supports war-victims communities in Colombia. Concerning the cover art, he wrote the following:

*The technique used was mixed, acrylic and ink on canvas. Painting this piece was a real challenge—synthesizing and imagining a culture made of many ancestral cultures. The arch was inspired by art nouveau but also by Hindu art, while the figures reference both southern and northern Native American cultures. The pillars are like “totems” of Native American origin, but the figures are inspired by Indigenous peoples of South America and the South Pacific, from Easter Island, the Maori, through the Incas to the Mayans and Aztecs. These columns also reference the legend of “Huitaca” from the muysca people, which speaks of a demon who ascended and became the owl—a symbol of wisdom and knowledge in many cultures. In this case, I wanted to refer to the novel’s great library. The circles are inspired by the sun but are also inspired by speakers, referencing the “voice of the people” and social organization within solarpunk.

At the top, there’s a kind of staircase inspired by the “chakana,” an Incan symbol representing the connection between the human world and higher realms.

The mermaid is inspired by “Yemaya,” who is an Orisha or goddess in the Yoruba culture from Haiti.*

I appreciate you being clear this isn’t solarpunk. It is contorting economics to try to make it humane.

Please be clear in your post these are by the Lemonaut.

dragon wings solar Generators 💚💚💚 I will point out that even here, people are not deploying those blimp wind turbines, which are supposed to be good for emergency power.

We had a fun discussion last weekend. Feel free to join us anytime. This is an anthology, so you can jump in, read that week’s stories, and hop on the call. Here is a new link in case the last timed out. https://discord.gg/x25VrwFC