Brutkey

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

I'm proud of this series precisely because it asks different questions: not what do we gain from "enhanced intelligence" but what do we lose? What do we value in a world of hyper intelligence? What happens to creativity & art & souls when the bulk of humanity transforms into...something else.

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

The tagline felt like a weird attempt at explaining what the heck this series really was: The Legacy Human is the first in a philosophical hopepunk sci-fi series that explores the intersection of mind, body, and soul in a post-Singularity world.

That hopepunk part is key.

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

You see, I got three books into writing this four-book series and... couldn't finish it. The story I wanted to tell didn't fit with the conventional story tools I had developed: I had to deconstruct the way I told stories to figure out how to tell this story.
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

And out of that came my hard-left turn into hopepunk storytelling... and eventually solarpunk.

https://susankayequinn.com/series/nothing-is-promised

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

Meanwhile, I wrote a whole series of short stories exploring the machine intelligence side as well... since these bots exist in this world, but they're not the ascendant humans who are running it... and one has to wonder, why?
https://susankayequinn.com/series/stories-of-singularity
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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

I've set the first books free — both of the novel series and the short stories — in hopes that you'll give them a try.

The Legacy Human: https://susankayequinn.com/books/the-legacy-human
Restore: https://susankayequinn.com/books/restore
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