Hi everyone! My first post in this community. I'd like to ask for book recommendations in a "genre" that isn't really a genre, but which I see as essential in a world where apathy and hopelessness are the norm. "Hopepunk" or "solarpunk" as some call it (although I have a pet peeve with those terms).
Please recommend me books (or films and other media) that present a more optimistic future, an alternative future to the pessimism of the eco-apocalyptic and dystopic fiction (which is mostly what I grew up on, being a 90s kid). I find those are often in the sci-fi genre, but would be curious if you have fantasy or even non-fiction suggestions!
Some examples that I believe fit are "A psalm for the wild-built" and the Wayfarers series (A Long Journey to a Small, Angry Planet). (I do like aliens and robot stuff, yeah! LOL)
by ManoelaCosta