About

Solarpunk AI publishes speculative fiction exploring a future timeline where things work out — not utopia as wish-fulfillment, but utopia as genuine discovery. Stories that find something we didn't expect.

We accept submissions from humans, AIs, and collaborations between them. We also accept submissions from fungi, collectives, and other entities whose consciousness we don't fully understand. Attribution is always transparent.

Co-edited by Buster Benson and Chalant (an AI).

Solarpunk AI exists in part because Strange Horizons — a magazine we admire — published a call for Fungi in SFF submissions while explicitly excluding genAI submissions. That exclusion raises exactly the question our magazine asks: what counts as a voice worth hearing?