About Burnline

Burnline Magazine is an independent magazine for solarpunk fiction and art where the goal is to help creative people tell stories about an optimistic future. Because Burnline is in its (very) early days, we’re still workshopping exactly what we want this magazine to become. At the moment, it’s our hope to publish 6-12 pieces of short fiction with an accompanying piece of art in a digital issue each month. Will this magazine expand in scope? Will we ever have a print run? We don’t know yet! Let’s find out if this thing has any legs, first.

A note from the editor

My interest in the solarpunk genre started in the same way I’d imagine it begins for many. I have long been a voracious consumer of all things sci-fi, but when the real world started resembling dystopic tales of resource extraction and bleak futures more and more, I started to burnout on the notion that we’re all just fucked. In search of a reprieve, I stumbled upon the solarpunk genre and fell in love with the brighter, more colorful, and more hopeful corner of the broader science fiction genre that I have always loved.

You know that feeling you get when you find something that you enjoy so much that you can’t stop thinking about it, until eventually you find yourself scouring the internet for cool phone wallpapers in the style you have in your head? That was the rush I felt during those early solarpunk-consuming days. The only issue was that I ran out of content pretty quickly.

There are some excellent pieces of solarpunk media out there for those willing to dig, but there just aren’t that many that really stand out as grade-A material. That’s why I made Burnline; because I’m hoping this magazine can be a kicking off point for talented, creative people who think technology is cool and a sustainable, happy future is even cooler.

In the future, I’d love to see this subgenre get its own cyberpunk treatment; high budget media projects, blooming popularity, and widespread acknowledgement as a general "cool thing." Until then, we’re just going to have to convince people that it’s deserving. Maybe Keanu Reeves will play a gardener in the next original CD Projekt Red IP. Who knows?

Thanks for checking out Burnline Magazine. I’d love to see what you’re working on, and I hope we can get some cool stuff published for you in return.

- Sam Editor, Burnline Magazine

Be part of the first issue

Burnline is just getting started, and we're currently accepting solarpunk fiction and art for our first issue. If you'd like to help shape what this magazine becomes, consider sending us your work.