Stories confronting our environmental crisis—imagining both the worst possibilities and paths toward hope.
Climate fiction—or "cli-fi"—has emerged as one of the most urgent subgenres in contemporary literature. These novels don't treat climate change as distant future speculation; they grapple with transformations already underway, imagining both catastrophic outcomes and possible paths forward.
Kim Stanley Robinson has become the genre's most prominent voice, with novels like The Ministry for the Future offering detailed visions of how humanity might actually address the crisis. Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife presents a grimly plausible near future of resource wars. Richard Powers' The Overstory weaves together human and arboreal timescales.
What makes cli-fi vital is its refusal to look away. These authors confront the scale of environmental change while insisting that stories matter—that how we imagine the future shapes the choices we make in the present.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Paolo Bacigalupi

Richard Powers

Kim Stanley Robinson

J. G. Ballard

Barbara Kingsolver

Octavia E. Butler

John Lanchester
Explore possible futures shaped by environmental crisis. These powerful dystopian novels imagine worlds transformed by climate change, offering both warnings and hope for humanity's survival.
Cautionary visions of societies gone wrong—totalitarian states, ecological collapse, and humanity's worst tendencies writ large.
Civilization has fallen—now what? Stories of survival, rebuilding, and human resilience in the wake of catastrophe.
Scientifically rigorous speculative fiction where the science isn't just backdrop—it's the star.
From scientific foundations to personal narratives, this collection brings together six transformative books that illuminate the climate crisis from every angle. These essential works combine rigorous research, practical solutions, and compelling storytelling to inspire both understanding and action.