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'Solarpunk' graphic novel set 500 years in Abu Dhabi's future unveiled at Comic Con | The National (www.thenationalnews.com)
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For his Abu Dhabi-set science fiction graphic novel Solarblader, Emirati writer Mo Abedin focuses his speculative fiction on renewable energy, inspired by the initiatives happening in the current-day UAE. Dubbing the new subgenre "solarpunk", due to the reliance on solar energy in his version of the future, he hopes to inspire a new trend.

Sandstorm debuted the first volume of Abedin’s graphic novel titled Solarblade at this year's Middle East Film and Comic Con, which ends today. Set in an alternate-universe Abu Dhabi in 2525, it imagines the UAE capital fully reliant on solar energy, bolstered by alien technology that helps harness the full power of the sun.

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