We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
- Brian Cox, physicist
Name a galaxy and build a better world with free electricity from outer space!
Your registration fee helps maintain solarpunkplanet.com, a platform that informs writers and the public about how we can realistically create a better future. Solarpunk is a positive response to climate change, inequality, and fiction's depressing obsession with dystopian futures. As futurist Brian David Johnson says of sci fi:
“We can change the future by changing the story we tell ourselves about the future we are going to live in.”
Solarpunk is an emerging literary genre that believes that Earth's best years are ahead of us. It believes that decency, kindness and maturity are what it will take to make a better future, and these aren't impossible achievements — not for a person and not for a world.
Imagine naming a galaxy that is home to an evolving world, where the service motive is replacing the profit motive, and where post-scarcity collaborative consumption is replacing zero-sum squabbling over scarce resources.
I offer two galaxy registration packages: Deluxe and Economy.
See below for details.
Full Color Certificate
Hand-signed and dated
Suitable for framing
8.5" x 11"
Dedication Web Page
Personalized web page for the galaxy recipient with your special message
Short Story
A short story about Earth in 2078 and a science explainer of space-based solar power
Galaxy Facts
Interesting details about your galaxy, including its location in the night sky and distance from Earth
Full Color Certificate
Hand-signed and dated
Suitable for framing
8.5" x 11"
Dedication Web Page
Personalized web page for the galaxy recipient with your special message
Please be aware that our naming of galaxies is not official and does not change its number in any astronomical catalogues.