According to the introduction, this is the first anthology of solarpunk stories, which matches with my (admittedly vague) recollection of the genre. Solarpunk's a relatively new form of science fiction, and for me it's a welcome change from doom and dystopian gloom. Watching it develop over the past few years has been an interesting experience, to the point where, reading this anthology, some of the stories hardly strike me as solarpunk at all. Ecological, yes, speculative, yes, but either my own experience of solarpunk has been hitherto limited (admittedly a likely option) or the definition, such as it is, has evolved over the very few years solarpunk has been acknowledged as a thing.

That being said, challenges to my own personal classification system aside, there's some lovely work here, and I like how there seems to be as much emphasis on poetry as there is on prose. One of my favourite pieces in the entire collection is a poem: "The Seven Species" by Aleksei Valentin, which was so good I stopped to read it several times over before moving on to other works in the anthology. Another highlight was "The Boston Hearth Project" by T.X. Watson, but my absolute favourite, and a story that has become one of my instant all time best shorts ever read, is A.C. Wise's "A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World," which is just so beautifully written that - even if I can't bring myself to think of it as solarpunk - is still just outstandingly lovely. This anthology is worth buying for those three pieces alone, but there's a lot of other fantastic work here too.