The Cities That Dream
A cozy existentialist solarpunk novel in 17 chapters. Green, dirty, tender, and built from bad coffee, street lamps, bread, solar roofs, and people who still come outside.
The Cities That Dream is a free, noncommercial solarpunk novel released one chapter at a time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Released: chapters
Chapter 1: The child who drew trees : flying cars and silver people.
Chapter 2: Ten more seconds in the right timeline : a Berlin street and rolling bottles.
Chapter 3: The drawing returns : An old West Berlin teacher and a wall.
Chapter 4: Beautiful exits from collapse
Unreleased chapters:
Chapter 5: They killed Nir
Chapter 6: A chair in the snow
Chapter 7: Twelve seats for one
Chapter 8: Wounds at the edges
Chapter 9: It wants to be
Chapter 10: How the wrong timeline recruited
Chapter 11: For someone to remember I was funny
Chapter 12: Mina, quiet
Chapter 13: The table
Chapter 14: Enough is something you do for a while
Chapter 15: A chair that wobbles a little
Chapter 16: Ici aussi, here too
Chapter 17: The branch
License
© 2026 L. V. Linden.
This work is shared as a free, noncommercial artistic project.
Free to read and share with attribution. No commercial use. No derivatives.