A review by wunder
When We Hold Each Other Up by Phoebe Wagner

3.0

I guess solarpunk can include fantasy elements, but this was too far into fantasy and magic for me. I see solarpunk as saying something practical about our future, but in the first paragraph, we have a person who is draining "life energy" (or something like that) from an apple tree. And, maybe this is nitpicking, but how do you heal part of an aspen grove, when it is a single organism with a common root system? Characterization was pretty light, focusing mostly on the world building. That would be OK if the ecological society was given in more detail. We never find out how Haven City feeds themselves after ten years of improvement, only that the city feels better through the feet of the skateboarders. Right.