Prescience is about seeing the now very clearly. However, living in devastating times, in the dragon’s mouth, Solarpunk/Hopepunk artists are not just describing the dragon’s teeth, the nasty heat, or the cramped, funky wasteland. We’re plotting a way out of no way. We’re crossing old borders and boundaries and making new maps for ourselves. We devise maps for the future we want. We work to reinvent ourselves. Hope is refusing to believe the tales the dragon would tell on you. Nothing is inevitable! The future is made by our choices. The question is, what stories do we tell? What futures do we conjure?

Terry Pratchett once said that "J.R.R. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints." But the world is bigger than Middle Earth and many artists write stories from a perspective where, instead of Mt. Fuji, they see Mount Kilimanjaro, Mauna Kea, the Andes, or other landmarks. We demand stories that expand their worldbuilding beyond Tolkien- to Asia, Africa, the Americas and elsewhere. We demand stories that take us out of fantasy's comfort zone.

There is a deluge of stories centering climate disaster, climate collapse. But dystopia does not directly lead itself to conversations around solutions. We demand stories that engage with the spiritual, the political, and the technological insights that lead to worlds we want to live in. We Demand Climate Fiction with a Future.

Death - It will come for us and those we love. It is our biggest fear because the great beyond is the great unknown. It brings finality to everything we know and love. But are there other ways of looking at death - an altered existence, or a new beginning? Together, let's explore the myths, the stories, and the science of what we fear most - the end.

Artificial Intelligence, a staple of speculative fiction, is here, and we're all playing catch up. Most of us have a gestalt conception, a feeling of what we don't want from AI. But beyond that, we demand stories that better define the right place for AI in our society, be it governance, economy, ecology, or the arts. We demand human centered A.I.