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)
Migrations
The Overstory
New York 2140
Flight Behavior
Wild Dark Shore
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
427 books — 631 voters
Draconim Lacrima Mortis by Lawrence NaultUnbroken Bones by Alana C MarksFingerprints In The Water by Lawrence NaultFeeding The Fires by Lawrence Nault
Eco-Fantasy
4 books — 2 voters

Africa Rising by Martin W. KennedyImber by Deborah MistinaThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Marrow Thieves by Cherie DimalineAdrift by Lisa Brideau
Best Fiction Books on Climate Change
25 books — 23 voters
An Orchid in my Belly Button by Katy WimhurstThe Lightning Tree by Lene FogelbergThe Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth OzekiThe Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonWeather and Beasts and Growing Things by Charlotte Suttee
Climate fiction published since 2020
28 books — 28 voters



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