Beyond the green smart cities, solarpunk can also be dark

Lidia Zuin
7 min readMay 6, 2021

Disclaimer: This essay was originally published in Portuguese on Tab UOL.

For the past months I have been dedicated to reading more about the science fiction subgenre Solarpunk. Here in Brazil, back in 2013, we already had the publication of one of the first anthologies of the genre, “Solarpunk — Histórias ecológicas e fantásticas em um mundo sustentável” (Solarpunk…

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Lidia Zuin

Brazilian journalist, MA in Semiotics and PhD in Visual Arts. Researcher and essayist. Technical and science fiction writer.