The Weight of Light
A Collection of Solar Futures
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring human futures powered by solar energy, with an upbeat, solarpunk twist. What will it be like to live in the photon societies of tomorrow? How will a transition to clean, plentiful energy transform our values, markets, and politics?
The Weight of Light emphasizes that the design of solar energy matters just as much as the shift away from fossil fuels. Solar technologies can be planned, governed, and marketed in many different ways. The choices we make will profoundly shape the futures we inhabit. The collection features stories by award-winning science fiction authors, working in collaboration with illustrators, graphic designers, and experts in policy, ethics, climate science, and electrical, environmental, civil, and aerospace engineering.
Customer Reviews
Interesting and Thought-Provoking
“The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures” is a 2018 publication by the Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Science and the Imagination. It’s edited by Joey Eschrich and Clark A. Miller, and contains a mixture of short fiction, and related science essays. The overall topic is how solar energy might be implemented, and how these implementations may affect future societies.
The four works of fiction are by Brenda Cooper, Andrew Dana Hudson, Cat Rambo, and Corey S. Pressman. All are pretty good stories, and generally positive. The related essays are interesting explorations of the ideas in the stories, and especially the choices made. Overall, it’s a thought-provoking work.