The 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 […]

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Man’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

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The Adjacent, Christopher Priest

The eagerly anticipated new novel from “one of the master illusionists of our time.” (Wired) Early on, the book establishes three distinct storylines: one set in a grim future fraught with climate-change catastrophes, one set in World War I, and one set in World War II. (Cape and Islands NPR). […]

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Icequake, Crawford Kilian

We were surprised by this article in The Tyee that was written by the author, Crawford Kilian, soon after the news of the ice sheets breaking off in the Antarctica hit (in May 2014). Kilian published his novel in 1980. When the world climate changes overnight, when thirteen million cubic […]

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Winter Damage, Natasha Carthew

On a frozen Cornish moor, a fourteen-year-old girl lives in a trailer with her dad and little brother. Ennor’s mother left years ago, when things started to go wrong – and gradually their world has fallen apart. Now her father’s gravely ill, school has closed, and Ennor knows they’re going […]

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The 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. […]

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Drowning 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. […]

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When Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer

A runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth. Their […]

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Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson takes us to a harsh, alien landscape covered by a sheet of ice two miles deep. This is no distant planet–it is the last pure wilderness on earth. A stark and inhospitable place, its landscape poses a challenge to survival; yet its strange, silent beauty has long […]

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Earth, David Brin

Time is running out. Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth’s core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only […]

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Greensword: A Tale of Extreme Global Warming, Donald J. Bingle

From Library Journal: “Zeke, Milo, and Brandon, members of a tiny ecoprotest group called GreensWord, aim to stop global warming before the beach house of their prime (and only) benefactor, actor Matthew Barrington, slides into the ocean. When Barrington threatens to cut off their funding, the enterprising trio steps up […]

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Orleans, 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 […]

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Terrene: The Hidden Valley, Eric Liu

In the isolated rural valley of Terrene, where technology is grown, not manufactured, Flora Karachi paints her anguish with flowers and yearns to travel outside the mountain walls that guard her village. But in a society which values harmony and symmetry above all else, her dangerous curiosity and her indelicate […]

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Solstice, P.J. Hoover

Each day brings hotter temperatures and heat bubbles that threaten to destroy the earth. Amid this global heating crisis, Piper lives under the oppressive rule of her mother, who suffocates her even more than the weather does. Everything changes on her eighteenth birthday, when her mother is called away on […]

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Haline, 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 […]

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