Excerpt from the foreword by Warren Ellis:

Excerpt from the foreword by Warren Ellis: 900-odd years from now, Earth is just a power station for Mars. Something that occurred to Ganzeer after recalling a teenage trip to the Aswan Dam and seeing a giant, impossible machine that he later learned was an environmental disaster. A machine to generate and transmit power. A machine whose construction displaced 100,000 people and caused significant ecological and health issues. We follow two young people subsisting in the glare of the Grid. The future’s killing everybody on Earth. This is the oldest and purest form of science fiction: taking a new angle on the present condition to light it in different and awful ways. Even absurdity brings clarity. And this book does have absurdity. Stylistic shifts pile up, jokes clatter about, it gets goofy and funny. But don’t be fooled. Ganzeer is fucking furious. The book is jagged with it. THE SOLAR GRID is big and full, it pushes boundaries and it absolutely crackles with the anger of an artist…