It’s the anxious eve of the millennium. The car is packed to capacity, and as midnight approaches, a family flees the city in a fit of panic and paranoid, conflicting emotions. The ensuing journey spans decades and offers a sharp-eyed perspective on a hardscrabble future, as a boy jettisons his […]
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The Sea and Summer, George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill – one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into […]
Read MoreThe Carbon Diaries 2017, Saci Lloyd
It’s over a year since her last diary and Laura Brown is now in her first year of university in London, a city still struggling to pull itself together in the new rationing era. Laura’s right in the heart of it; her band, the dirty angels, are gigging all over […]
Read MoreMan’s Last Song, James Tam
This is Hong Kong 2090. Population a few thousand, perhaps less; median age about sixty. After forty years of universal sterility, the human race is vanishing while the rest of the planet makes a healthy comeback. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Buy on Amazon
Read MoreThe Death of Grass, John Christopher
Published in 1956 (in the US it was published as No Blade of Grass). At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. […]
Read MoreDrowning Towers, George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill–one of the millions in the year 2041 who must subsist on the inadequate charities of the state. Life, already difficult, is rapidly becoming impossible for Francis and others like him, as government corruption, official blindness and nature have conspired to turn Swill homes into watery tombs. […]
Read MoreOrleans, Sherri Smith
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct… but in reality, a new primitive society has been born. Goodreads […]
Read MoreHaline, Sundeep Ahuja
Haline is a stark look at a post-climate change future, a world licking its wounds after decades of war and famine in which resources are scarce and government tyrannical. It is the answer to the troubling and timely question: What if we do nothing? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Buy […]
Read MoreCarbon Diaries 2015, Saci Lloyd
In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Buy on Amazon
Read MoreIn Ark: A Promise of Survival, Lisa Devaney
In the year 2044, Mya Brand lives in New York City and pursues her passion—trying to digitally save the life story of every human on the planet before climate change makes Earth un-liveable. Recovering from a failed marriage, she stays laser-focused on her mission. With support from her actress best […]
Read MoreOn Such a Full Sea, Chang Rae-Lee
On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-Rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from […]
Read MorePills and Starships, Lydia Millet
This page-turning first YA novel by critically acclaimed author Lydia Millet is stylish and dark and yet deeply hopeful, bringing Millet’s characteristic humor and style to a new generation of young readers. Click here for an interview with NPR. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Buy on Amazon
Read MoreA Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, Jane Rawson
It is 1997 in San Francisco and Simon and Sarah have been sent on a quest to see America: they must stand at least once in every 25-foot square of the country. Decades later, in an Australian city that has fallen on hard times, Caddy is camped by the Maribyrnong […]
Read MoreNature’s End, Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka
The year is 2025. Immense numbers of people swarm the globe. In countless, astonishing ways, technology has triumphed, but at a staggering cost. Starvation is rampant. City dwellers gasp for breath under blackened skies. And tottering on the brink of environmental collapse, the world may be ending. It is a […]
Read MoreThe Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
Fast-paced, kaleidoscopically comprehensive view of a near future rife with looming ecological dangers and possibly about to be saved by an underground revolutionary movement–if its leader can survive the hostility of vested interests to deliver his message of hope. An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at […]
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