Recs if you like Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)...
But WAIT. There’s hope. ✨FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
I’ll make another list for the nonfiction and for the anthologies. Feel free to suggest any recs!
Disabled/ND Apocalyptic Stories
Disability & Neurodivergency stories are rare in apocalypse & zombie books. I've found as many as I could!
As always, suggestions incredibly welcome! I'd love to round this one out!
Not intended as a list of good neurodivergent & dis rep (thou many of them absolutely are - lots are even written by disabled/ND authors! I just haven't yet read them all, so can't recommend every book on this list), but disabled or neurodivergent characters feature heavily in these stories of survival
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It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Fiction)
Books that are set in worlds that are either in the midst of facing world ending catastrophes or shortly there after. This list focuses on books that show how humans evolve and survive given the new circumstances they're in.
As always, open to suggestions for additions to the list! 🙂
series that feel like a 2000s ensemble tv show
These series openers feature ensemble casts and secondary plot arcs that stretch over multiple books. Multiple genres and eras of fiction are represented, and most series are complete while others are ongoing.
The Change
Novels from S. M. Stirling's Emberverse. Technology stops working and normal people have to cope. After the first trilogy, it takes a hard turn from dystopian into fantasy.
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