Book launch / Solar Time dispatch 001
The Solarpunk Society
A Glaswegian field report from the timeline where Scotland swerved the worst of Cyber Time and built something stranger, kinder, and harder to sell back to us.
Final manuscript, buy links, and torrent hash are placeholders until the book file is locked.
Choose your path
Buy it, back it, borrow it, or seed it.
Buy the eBook
The clean market-value route once the final ePub/PDF is locked.
PrintPaperback / hardcopy
Bookvault placeholder for the physical copy.
Ko-fiPay more / support
For readers who want to fund free copies, servers, tools, and community work.
TorrentRead free / seed it
No shame gate. The free route is part of the politics.
What is this thing?
A very sweary pub story that smuggles a blueprint in its jacket.
Gingerbeard wakes up in our actual present with memories from Solar Time: an alternative Scotland where the 2014 Yes vote cracked history open and people stopped mistaking misery for realism.
The book moves between comic testimony, political imagination, and practical provocation: citizen dividends, sortition, consensus halls, food sovereignty, local-first tools, rewilded cities, and the stubborn belief that the world is not done yet.
Choose your timeline
Same city. Different story.
One path turns Glasgow into a subscription service with bad lighting. The other gives people the means to look after each other.
The distribution is the politics
Read it free. Pay if you can. Seed it if you believe in it.
Free is real. If you are skint, take the book without apology. Ideas about abundance cannot hide behind a till.
Support is useful. Paid copies keep editors, servers, print runs, and community copies moving.
The torrent is deliberate. Not a leak. A distribution philosophy with its boots on.
Sample chapters
Three doors into the book. Final text pending.
The axis is not left and right. It is power and everyone underneath it.
A standalone political compass for readers who feel the old labels have gone rotten.
02 / Citizen's DividendThe day survival stops being a monthly audition.
A practical economic doorway into Solar Time: money as a floor under imagination.
03 / Rewilded citiesCar parks into gardens. Concrete into commons. Tech that knows its place.
A grounded, visual, action-facing sample for people who want proof they can touch.
Proudly not sold on Amazon
The largest tollbooth in the room does not get to own the exit.
Direct sales, pay-what-you-can access, print partners, community sharing, and torrents keep the work closer to the people it was written for. Bezos can find another castle to haunt.