Alexis C. Madrigal — The Atlantic, November 2011
Written during the Occupy Wall Street protests, Madrigal quotes the full "Sun Riots" passage from Steve Baer's Sunspots (1975):
That got me thinking about other attempts at outsider protests and a strange piece of fiction by solar pioneer Steve Baer called, "The Sun Riots." Baer, who has run a successful solar company for decades, imagined a protest in a dystopian future that used the sun as its weapon against authority. I'm not endorsing the violence, but I think everything from the tone to the metaphorical message bears inspection.
The article then quotes the full "Sun Riots" passage from Sunspots (see Sunny days ahead and Sunspots for the full text).
Madrigal closes: "And that's it. Just that snippet. What a strange mix of metaphorical energy policy statement and protest fiction."
Image credit in the article: "From Sunspots, by Criss-Cross Art Workshop" — confirming that the Criss-Cross Art Workshop illustrations from the original 1975 book were used.
Source: Alexis C. Madrigal, "A Strange, Surreal Vision of Solar-Powered Riots," The Atlantic, November 2011. Fetched from web.
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/a-strange-surreal-vision-of-solar-powered-riots/247829/