Summer climate fiction – "cli fi" for short – genre reading list

[Nokomis.FL]

Saw this and thought it interesting enough to share.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/art...

[Sean]

No mention of Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling is auto-fail.

[Warren]

Agree. Heavy Wether should have been at least referenced.
I plan to watch Noah during the next hurricane.
Seems appropriate.

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

Summer reading list? I'm still getting my winter reading list ready ;-)

I'll add an Australian book about global warming and rising sea levels from 1987.

Drowning Towers (it is a AKA "The Seas and Summer)

[Paul]

Not to mention Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol trilogy:

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

Rivers by Michael Farris Smith

Flood by Stephen Baxter

Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell

[Bryan]

Paul 'Pezski' wrote: "Not to mention Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol trilogy:

[bookcover:Sixty Days and Counting|41..."

Yes, but I'd stick with the first book alone. The third is incredibly weak, and the second just so-so.

[Bryan]

A slew of Paolo Bacigalupi's novels and stories, like Wind-Up Girl.

[Bryan]

There's a grim little collection called I'm With the Bears.

[Ken]

I love Wind-Up Girl.

Adding a few others here on my list. I'm fascinated with how authors imagine climate change problems and how we'll grapple with them.

[Paul]

Bryan wrote: "Paul 'Pezski' wrote: "Not to mention Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol trilogy:

Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capitol, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capitol, #2) by Kim Stanley Robinson[bookcover:Sixty Days and Counting|41..."

Yes, but I'd stick with the first book alone. The third is incredibly weak, and the second just so-so"

I thought the second was weak but the third recovered superbly

[Ken]

So many of the premises of those suggested seem to deal only with the "event" and not with the implications, effects, or causes - or imaginative ways to deal with it. Just an observation.

[Bryan]

Paul 'Pezski' wrote: "Bryan wrote: "Paul 'Pezski' wrote: "Not to mention Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol trilogy:

Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capitol, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson Fifty Degrees Bel..."

After a very slow, very pointless spy chase? Or after the president does improbable politics?
There just wasn't much there, there. Reminds me of what happened to the Mars books.

[Jack]

The Drowned World by JG Ballard

[Ken]

Drowned World is excellent, and would be one of my suggestions too.

[Bryan]

Jack wrote: "The Drowned World by JG Ballard
"

Good one.
Ballard did write a bunch of destroy-the-world novels before his postmodern tales became more famous.

Perhaps we should add a golden oldie, John Christopher's No Blade of Grass.