The Bone Clocks | David Mitchell
Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes:…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Rapture | Liz Jensen
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds,…
February 7, 2023/by KatieEarth | David Brin
Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Book of Dave | Will Self
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe History of Bees | Maja Lunde
An ambitious debut novel that follows three generations…
Any Human Power | Manda Scott
Manda Scott, known to many as the host of the Accidental…
Briefly Very Beautiful | Roz Dineen
What will the world look like tomorrow,…
And Still The Earth | Ignacio Brandao
Welcome to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future.…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Silo Series | Hugh Howey
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where the remaining…
The Sea and Summer | George Turner
Francis Conway is Swill - one of the 90% in the year 2041…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Deluge | Stephen Markley
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing,…
March 27, 2023/by KatieOdds Against Tomorrow | Nathaniel Rich
New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor works on the…
February 7, 2023/by KatieDaylight Come | Diana McCaulay
This haunting novel is set in a dystopian future…
The Climate-Conscious Writers Handbook | ed. Wren James
June 25, 2025/by Liz JensenJeff VanderMeer | Area X
Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series, beginning with the iconic trilogy—Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptanceand extending to the fourth volume, Absolution,…
Parable of the Sower | Octavia E. Butler
America is a place of chaos, where violence rules…
Earth 7 | Deb Olin Unferth
"Earth had gotten the best the universe had to offer,…
The Alternatives | Caoilinn Hughes
Hughes’ resonant, beautifully-written story of four sisters…
November 1, 2024/by Liz JensenFlight Behaviour | Barbara Kingsolver
"The flames now appeared to lift from individual treetops…
February 7, 2023/by KatieA Friend of the Earth | TC Boyle
It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist…
February 7, 2023/by KatieParadises Lost | Ursula K. Le Guin
This novella describes a multi-generational voyage…
How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu
"Even in the face of endings, we invent new forms…
The Drowned World | JG Ballard
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious…
February 7, 2023/by KatieClade | James Bradley
Clade is the story of one family in a radically changing world,…
June 3, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperExtremophile | Ian Green
For fans of cli-fi and cyberpunk, this whirlwind…
Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is the first book in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian…
March 27, 2023/by KatieMaddAddam | Margaret Atwood
Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Ministry for the Future | Kim Stanley Robinson
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe New Wilderness | Diane Cook
In this haunting debut novel, Diane Cook explores…
New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson
As the sea level rose, every street became a canal,…
Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy
Gripping, moving, and beautifully-wrought, McConagh’s…
Every Version of You | Grace Chan
Set against the backdrop of the planet’s failing…
The World According To Anna | Jostein Gaarder
Fifteen-year-old Anna has begun receiving terrifying visions,…
July 14, 2023/by Anne Enith CooperThe World According to Anna | Jostein Gaarder
When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from…
February 7, 2023/by KatieA Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers
This feelgood solarpunk novella centres…
The Last Children of Tokyo | Yoko Tawada
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years…
Dream State | Eric Puchner
Puchner’s engrossing multi-generational portrait…
What We Can Know | Ian McEwan
January 27, 2026/by sandywVenomous Lumpsucker | Ned Beauman
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse…
A Guardian and a Thief | Megha Majumdar
In the not too distant future, Kolkata is beset by…
White Road | Harry Whitehead
Carrie is a Scottish rescue swimmer out of her depth in the…
October 6, 2025/by Liz JensenThe Healer | Antti Tuomainen
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless…
February 7, 2023/by KatieArboreality | Rebecca Campbell
Campbell’s brilliant cli-fi novella weaves an intergenerational…
The Carbon Diaries 2015 | Saci Lloyd
It's January 1st, 2015, and the UK is the first nation to…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Stone Gods | Jeanette Winterson
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet -…
February 7, 2023/by KatieNOTES FROM THE BURNING AGE | CLAIRE NORTH
Claire North started writing when she was 14 years…
The Ice People | Maggie Gee
It's the middle of the 21st century, and the next Ice Age…
February 7, 2023/by KatieGreen Rising | Lauren James
In a near-future world rocked by the effects of the climate…
November 1, 2024/by Liz JensenThings We Didn’t See Coming | Steven Amsterdam
Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we…
February 7, 2023/by KatieMan in the Holocene | Max Frisch
A stunning tour de force, Man in the Holocene constructs…
February 7, 2023/by KatieThe Lamentations of Zeno | Ilija Trojanow
Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide…
February 7, 2023/by KatieDon’t Call Me A Hurricane | Ellen Hagan
Five years after a hurricane tore through her Jersey…
THE FUTURE | NAOMI ALDERMAN
The future that Alderman conjures in her ambitious, exuberant…
November 15, 2023/by Liz JensenJuice | Tim Winton
The acclaimed Australian novelist Tim Winton returns…
The Morningside | Téa Obreht
Silvia and her mother are refugees on Island City…
The Swan Book | Alexis Wright
The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginal people…
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