Solaris sapphic love in space

written and illustrated by Annie Stein, with the help of Sol's best fiancée skairunner

Winner of Most Beautiful New World 2022, a wondrous reimagining of our Solar System. Solaris is retro science fiction with a queer and artistic twist. Written and illustrated by Annie Stein, with the help of Sol's best fiancée Skairunner.

When you’re already defying one all-powerful force, why not another? Eun has no doubt that if she was Icarus, she would also end up plunging into the sea.

— Those who fly close to the sun

Welcome to Solaris

This site is a compendium of the worldbuilding written for my upcoming webcomic. Solaris is a love letter to the wonder I felt looking up at the stars as a kid, and it reimagines our solar system as vivid and mysterious place with aliens galore. It is not a world without danger. The stars are hostile, and the sun itself has laid siege on Mercury. Angelic armies have scorched the planet, and people fear what will happen should the defence at Penumbra fail.

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History

Scorching of Mercury

Military Conflict | Nov 8, 2024

The Scorching of Mercury, also known as the First Solar Invasion, was an invasion by the angelic armies known today as the Scourge. The invasion destroyed most of Mercurian civilization and radically changed the planet's biosphere across four years.

Planets

Mercury

Planet | Sep 2, 2024

Mercury was once the economic center of the Sol System, but today most of its people are refugees. The Scorching of Mercury has left the planet an arid husk of its former glory.

About the Sol System

Culture

Dumplings in Space

Tradition / Ritual | Nov 16, 2024

The whole world was in that very mouthful. It was immediately addicting. The thin padi film burst and my mouth was all sensations, numbingly it rolled in sweet, then sour, then a sharp floral sang all the way up my sinuses.

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