Do you enjoy speculative fiction, science fiction, and/or books that transport you to other times and/or places? If so then consider adding some Climate Fiction (a.k.a. Cli-Fi) to your reading lists to help celebrate Earth Day 2024.
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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
by Bill McKibben Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States. By the author of Eaarth. |
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The Future: A Novel
by Naomi Alderman While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, when their paths unexpectedly cross, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization. |
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Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned Beauman Across the dystopian landscapes of the 2030s, Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard, after a mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank, wiping out traces of perished species, hunt for the venomous lumpsucker, a small, ugly bottom-feeder that happens to be the most intelligent fish on the planet. |
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Blue skies: A Novel
by T. Coraghessan Boyle When a social media influencer buys a Burmese python from her local pet shop, she sets in motion a series of increasingly dire events that ensnares her entire family in the new novel by the author of World's End. |
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The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature. |
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The Lost Cause
by Cory Doctorow Thirty years from now, young Americans help mitigate climate change to heal our planet, but some elderly Americans, who cling to their grievances and anger, rely on“alternative” news sources that validate their resentment and their belief that“climate change” is just a giant scam. |
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The Waters: A Novel
by Bonnie Jo Campbell Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, 11-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother. |
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The Great Transition: A Novel
by Nick Fuller Googins When her mother, a suspect in the public assassination of a dozen climate criminals, disappears, Emi Vargas and her father, Larch, a part of a movement called The Great Transition, which had changed the world, arrive in New York City, a lightly populated storm-surge outpost, but they aren't the only ones looking for her. |
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Gravity is Heartless
by Sarah Lahey The year is 2049, and climate scientist Quinn Buyers would rather be studying clouds than getting ready for her wedding day. But when an unexpected tragedy causes her to lose everything, including her famous scientist mother, she embarks upon a quest for answers. Quinn's adventures take her across globe, from the megacity Unus, where civil war is brewing, to the climate city Harmonia, where cool air is a privilege savored by the wealthy. Along the way she uncovers friends, loss, and love in the most unlikely of places, including a mysterious cyborg who changes her life forever. |
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The Displacements
by Bruce W. Holsinger When a hurricane upends everything they have taken for granted, the privileged Larson-Hall family find themselves displaced to a FEMA megashelter where their new community includes an insurance-agent-turned-drug dealer, a group of vulnerable children and a dedicated relief work trying to keep the peace. |
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The Free People's Village
by Sim Kern Maddie is rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. When police respond to Save the Eighth protests with violence, the Lab becomes the epicenter of “The Free People’s Village”—an occupation that promises to be the birthplace of an anti-capitalist revolution. But the Village is beset on all sides—by infighting, police brutality, corporate-owned media, and rising ecofascism |
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Stolen: A Novel
by Ann-Helâen Laestadius Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution—a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden. As hatred and threats against the Sámi reindeer herders escalate, resulting in more reindeer being tortured and killed, Elsa, a young Indigenous woman, decides to push back on the apathetic police force, making her the target of a devious hunter who wants to silence her forever. |
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The Deluge
by Stephen Markley In 2013 California, environmental scientist Tony Pietrus, after receiving a death threat, is linked to a colorful cast of characters, including a brazen young activist who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. |
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A Fire So Wild: A Novel
by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman As a wildfire threatens to engulf Berkeley, California, the city's residents, both rich and poor, are forced to confront the social and economic inequities that plague their community in the new novel from a former climate journalist. |
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Camp Zero: A Novel
by Michelle Min Sterling In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of climate researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut. |
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Land of Milk and Honey
by C Pam Zhang Accepting a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony, a young chef, with the help of her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter, is awakened to the pleasures of taste, touch and her own body until she is pushed beyond her boundaries in a plot to reshape the world far beyond the plate. |