[The following may be unfair and more due to the small sample size of solarpunk novels i have read. Then again googling it seems there are very few solarpunk no

[The following may be unfair and more due to the small sample size of solarpunk novels i have read. Then again googling it seems there are very few solarpunk novels written to be solar punk. Half the stuff that comes up are scifi classics like Dune which long predate the term solarpunk and don't particularly fit the definition imo] The solar punk fiction i've encountered always seemed kind of boring. It felt like wishful thinking. Utopian fiction can be interesting, but usually it is most interesting when it investigates what happens when something rocks the boat. When i think of star trek or the culture, i think of stories where they encounter a challenge to the utopian life, and they need to find someway to overcome it without sacraficing ideals. The solarpunk works i have read (perhaps i just haven't read enough examples) felt more along the lines of - what if everyone suddenly decided to set aside our differences, live in peace and protect the planet. Like yes that would be nice, but the book has to say something interesting about that to be interesting.