Episodes

In our long delayed recap episode for our Solarpunk season, Caroline and Carly reflect on what they have learned about how to organize society. Our Solar punk books were: Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Book Club A Psalm for th...

What happens to a post scarcity society when the fear of death is removed? In our final discussion for our Solar Punk season, Caroline and Carly ponder how curing death can help create a better society. They talk about some o...

Special guest Margaret joins us to talk about rebuilding civilization after collapse and what we lose when civilization ends. We ask if people are capable of radical change. In this book, our main character, Ish, builds a fam...

Special guest Christy joins us to talk about Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves , about the human response when the moon is destroyed in an unpredictable cataclysm. The main characters must build habitats in space to preserve the hu...

We are wrapping up our season on Solar Punk with three heavy hitting books. The final three books of the season are Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Earth Abides by George R. Stewart and Walkaway by Cory Doctorow.. Seveneves beg...

This short story inspired a wide-ranging conversation about how Carly and Caroline respond to climate change in their personal lives. They talk about how they can build a better society right now but they choose not to becaus...

What happens in utopia 200 years later? Caroline and Carly discuss how utopian ideals survive entropy and scarcity and what it takes for a person to be able to objectively evaluate another society. Get your copy of the books ...

This plot-filled story made Carly and Caroline ask questions about personhood. Personhood is defined by law in this book, which is not necessarily a bad thing. We also talk about what you have to leave behind to create someth...

Season 2 of the Book Club Podcast continues with our indy, classic, and short story selections in the Solar Punk genre. Read with us! You can subscribe to our email newsletter at bookclubpod.substack.com. Subscribe now and yo...

This book makes us ask the hard questions like, what must be given up to achieve the dream of a better future? To heal 5,000 years of violence and destruction, what if it takes 5,000 more years to bend the arc of history? Wha...

This novella seamlessly weaves philosophical questions about humanity’s place in the greater ecosystem within a delightful story about a monk and a robot. Caroline and Carly talk about shame as a prosocial instinct and whethe...

Our first solarpunk book is an environmental utopia with detailed explanations for how things work and why they were organized that way. The main character is a journalist traveling to Ecotopia for the first time in 20 years ...

Season 2 of the Book Club Podcast starts now! This season, we are reading Solarpunk. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions building a sustainable, technological future interconnected with nature and com...