Thanks to author Don Bredes for joining our community discussion group and letting us know about his upcoming YA climate novel. Don Bredes’s new young adult (YA) fantasy is called “Polly and the One and Only World.” Don’s first novel, “Hard Feelings,” was an American Library Association Best Book for […]
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This book is set to come out November 1, 2014. A graphic novel in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to mark its 30th anniversary, IDP (short for “internally displaced person or persons”) imagines a Scotland 30 years in the future. Six teams of major names in European comics […]
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Thanks to H.A. Swain for submitting information about her new YA novel Hungry: Excerpts from reviews: “Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Lois Lowry’s The Giver will flock to this story.” –School Library Journal “In a world where you take medication to ward off hunger and a supplement […]
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Thanks to Andrew Hanson, author, for providing us a good description of his new book: In the year 2030, London is recovering from a disastrous flood, which some say was caused by climate change. When a controversial talk-show host is murdered, suspicion falls on radical activist Ben Martins. Ben may be innocent, […]
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Thanks to Philip Temple, author, for providing information about this new speculative fiction and “future realist” title. It is available in New Zealand book stores, through Philip Temple’s website, and soon as an e-book. Is this what our future looks like? The surveillance society, climate change, global financial crises, the […]
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Thanks again for doing an interview with Cli-Fi Books. We first talked last October about your book 500 Parts per Million. It was a great interview, and I was intrigued by your comparison of proactive youth in the 1960s compared to modern day–especially now when we face the biggest environmental […]
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Paolo Bacigalupi’s debut collection demonstrates the power and reach of the science fiction short story. Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo’s work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning, and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. […]
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Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal […]
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A vision of hope sinking and hope rising, in an America paralyzed by corporate control of government while sea levels rise catastrophically due to human-caused climate change. First published in The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1975, the scarily prescient story was nominated […]
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On September 27 this year, we’ll be participating in Vancouver, British Columbia’s 100,000 Poets for Change. We kicked off this virtual event in June, with a short story contest about climate change, which is ongoing! (Please do read the rules, and they must be followed if you want to have […]
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This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian. Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads […]
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Each book stands alone, although all books in the cycle are set in the same universe. Works are not numbered, as author says: “People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in — the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen […]
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Parts 1-4 of Claude Nougat’s series. 200 years from now, the world, in the grip of global warming, is eerily like ours, only much worse. The ultra-rich, a.k.a. the One Percenters, live in protected areas while the rest of humanity faces pollution, plagues and early death. Goodreads Reviews Back to […]
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I wholly enjoyed reading this adventure story, a thrilling journey and ride with wonderful character development and a highly contagious heroine, Aqual. It’s a magnificent novel–something that many first-time authors do not achieve. The Admiral is a post-apocalyptic novel about a community of people trying to survive a climate-changed world […]
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