Cli-fi - science fiction about climate change, from Multcolib My Librarian ErikaLike this list

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• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  As society collapses, 15-year-old Lauren Olamina must flee LA for northern California, where she starts a new faith that she hopes will one day take humanity to the stars.

• Arboreality

  Campbell, Rebecca, 1975-

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  Six interconnected stories that imagine life on British Columbia's Vancouver island as society collapses... and changes. A more hopeful look at how the world might transform.

• Venomous Lumpsucker

  Beauman, Ned,

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  In the bizarre, dystopian world of the 2030s, an animal cognition scientist and an corporate "environmental impact coordinator" must team up in search of an unusual fish.

• American War

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--this is a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

• Oryx and Crake

  a Novel

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved.

• Dual Memory

  Burke, Sue, 1955-

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  An undercover mercenary/artist and a temperamental AI must work together to defend an Arctic haven in a time of societal and ecological collapse. A fast-paced thriller that explores human and machine interaction.

• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen,

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  In 2013 in California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus receives a death threat. Afterward, he becomes linked to a colorful cast of characters - including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Perihelion Summer

  Egan, Greg, 1961-

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  Taraxippus is coming ; a black hole one-tenth the mass of the sun that will change the solar system forever. Matt and his friends board a mobile aquaculture rig, self-sustaining in food, power, and fresh water.

• The Ministry for the Future

  Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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  The first section, about a "wet-bulb" event in India, is one of the most horrifying depictions of the effects of climate change I've read. The rest of the book explores solutions and barriers, is a bit wonky.

• Goliath

  Onyebuchi, Tochi,

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  The story of the people left behind as the planet is wracked by pandemic, pollution, and climate chaos, and the affluent flee to the first space colony.

• The Water Knife

  Bacigalupi, Paolo

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  When water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.

• Hummingbird Salamander

  VanderMeer, Jeff,

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  A security consultant receives a key to a storage unit from a dead woman, a reputed ecoterrorist. Inside is a taxidermied animal. As she tries to figure out why the woman contacted her, time is running out, for her and the world. Atmospheric and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Austral

  McAuley, Paul J.,

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  A desperate genetically engineered woman living in a future Antarctica commits a kidnapping she hopes will result in ransom money that will allow her to start a new life.

• Fauna

  Vadnais, Christiane, 1986-

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  In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, a biologist fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Surreal and terrifying.

• Arctic Rising

  Buckell, Tobias S.,

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  In a future Earth decimated by global warming, an innovative corporation creates a technology that can both cool the planet and provide a massive super-weapon, prompting airship pilot Anika Duncan to be swept up by an international plot. An…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023,

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  In an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape. While the cataclysm that caused it is not defined, this is a chilling portrait of a land where most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Friend of the Earth

  Boyle, T.C.

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  In the year 2025 global warming is a reality, the biosphere has collapsed, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a living as care-taker of a pop star's private zoo when his second ex-wife re-enters his life.

• The Drowned World

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

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  A precursor to today's cli-fi. Imagines a terrifying world in which global warming has melted the ice caps and primordial jungles have overrun a tropical London. Originally published in 1962.

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank,

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  This classic novel about a desert planet torn apart by disputes over scarce resources can be seen as a precursor to the climate fiction of today.

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