Climate Change Fiction

Climate fiction, or climate change fiction, popularly abbreviated as cli-fi (modelled after the assonance of "sci-fi") is literature that deals with climate change and global warming. Not necessarily speculative in nature, works of cli-fi may take place in the world as we know it or in the near future. University courses on literature and environmental issues may include climate change fiction in their syllabi. This body of literature has been discussed by a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Dissent magazine, among other international media outlets. ...more

The Ministry for the Future
The Water Knife
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
The Overstory
Migrations
New York 2140
Flight Behavior
The Light Pirate
An Orchid in my Belly Button by Katy WimhurstImber by Deborah MistinaThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Water Knife by Paolo BacigalupiArising by Lisa Perskie Rodriguez
Climate Fiction That Matters
24 books — 8 voters
Little House on the Wasteland by Laura Ingalls-WeiStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelThe Three-Body Problem by Liu CixinThe Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-WellsChildren of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The End Was Near
39 books — 12 voters

The Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Overstory by Richard PowersOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeyThe Last Oracle by Christopher Hepworth
New and Classic Eco-Fiction
79 books — 88 voters
Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
417 books — 615 voters


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E.A. Mylonas, The Hush

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