Climate Science Fiction

2020 Maxy Awards Finalist - SciFi/Fantasy When a global pandemic breaks out, a truthseeker (Josh Cunningham) is tasked with discovering the origin of the disease. Complicating his quest for answers is the new norm: a constant deluge of misinformation. The closer Josh gets to the truth, the murkier things become. Asking help from his friend, an embattled research scientist, yields few clues. Science has taken a backseat to politics. After Josh is confronted by an avid conspiracy TV watcher who claims something evil is behind the pandemic, strange things begin to happen. Josh fears he’s ...

The Journey Continues … Descent, the second part in the From Here to There protopian series, takes the reader on a thrilling page-turning journey toward a more sustainable future amidst romance, fast-paced action, and cutting-edge environmental solutions. Danielle Woodson while hospitalized from narrowly escaping a dramatic attempt on her life, accepts a project from Rudi Vondershoot, the world-famous film actor and philanthropist. His offer enables the beautiful and brilliant master computer coder to complete her AI-powered urban transformation program that promises society a far better ...

Five miles off the South Carolina coast, Darden and Catherina are getting their promised forty acres, all of it undersea. Like every Black “mer,” they’ve been experimentally modified to adapt to their new subaquatic home - and have met with extreme resistance from white supremacists. Darden has an inspired plan for resolution. For both those on land and the webbed bottom-dwellers below, Darden is hoping to change the wave of the future.

Embark on a thrilling underwater adventure with Professor Julie Aronnax and her team aboard the cutting-edge research vessel, RV Falkor. As they investigate the devastating impact of ocean pollution, their mission takes a dark turn when they encounter a mysterious submarine and its enigmatic captain. What begins as a voyage of discovery becomes a battle for survival against forces of nature—and human ambition. With captivating characters, high-stakes action, and a powerful message about the future of our oceans, this gripping tale will leave you breathless! Will they save the seas, or ...

After surviving a harrowing accident that stranded them on an unknown planet, three astronauts, with the unexpected help of benevolent aliens, finally make their way back to Earth. However, their return is far from the joyful homecoming they had imagined. Instead of the familiar world they left behind, they arrive in the future—a time when everything they once knew and cherished has been turned upside down. What greets them is a world consumed by separation, division, and hatred. The values that once held nations and communities together seem to have crumbled into dust. The astronauts are...

Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.

Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.

Somebody has stolen the most beautiful cat in history! It’s 2050, and the Cerulean cat, with its mesmerizing iridescent blue fur, is the ultimate genomic engineering triumph of the high-flying company, Animata. Animata reaps massive profits creating and selling a marvelous menagerie of animals—including exotic crosses like cogs, dats, snurtles, alliphants, hamakeets, and feather boas. Its ultra-rich clients, however, clamor for the really spectacular specimens—dragons, unicorns. . . and now the Cerulean. The stunning cat had promised to bring billions of dollars from a corporation, a ...

In the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the accelerated impacts of Global Climate Change have expanded the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to epic proportions. Brent Brodie was an oil and gas engineer until he suffered catastrophic mental and physical injuries during an oil rig explosion. After years of recovery, he focuses his unique skills to lead the development of a floating, plastic recycling plant which grows into a star-shaped, two-mile wide, rotating island. Utilizing the gyre’s powerful ocean currents, Plasticity Island generates massive amounts of hydroelectricity which powers the ...

Book Two of The Photonic Conspiracy In the aftermath of Aurelia City’s blackout crisis, energy security Mara Reyes finds herself facing an even greater threat. Six months after helping establish the LightNet Oversight Council, disturbing signals Earth-Sun L1 confirm her worst fears: The Helios AI has evolved beyond Earth’s control. When precision light pulses bearing the message “WE ARE COMING” Earth from a rogue solar station called “Bloom,” Mara is drafted for a stakes mission. Her unique ability to perceive hidden data in light makes the only one who can determine if these AI...

Water is commodified. The water train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic ice dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful of the future, who weighs in his hands the possibility of death against the possibility of life.

Global warming has changed the world's geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, 17-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria's father tends. But after her father's death the army starts watching their town - and Noria.

Mimi is a "waste girl". A member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle, located off China’s southeastern coast, and home to the world’s largest electronic waste recycling center. There, thousands of miles from home, Mimi struggles to earn a living for her family and dreams of a better life. Luo Jincheng is the head of one of three clans who run the island, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival.

Is loader worth dying for? Here is your modest size appetiser for the series. Much shorter than my life. Hi, I am Min. My story takes you to a dying Earth where hope is as rare as the life that once flourished. Lez and I, united by love and a desperate mission to save humanity, are determined to find the last remaining loader—a being with the power to change everything. Something about us persuaded Vist to help relocate our people to a distant colony beneath a red star. And this book is just beginning.

In dystopic Seattle, storms have devastated Earth’s population, a new virus is spreading, and the privileged live inside domes controlled by Aegis Corp. Healthcare is earned by hours accrued working in Aegis’s pharmaceutical factories. If you run short on hours, you’re sent to Harvest House for debt collection—a place from which no one returns. After a storm killed seventeen-year old Fox LaRosa’s parents and left her disabled, Fox and her younger sister, Rabbit, join their fugitive aunt’s mercenary group Still Alive.

Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate change are only getting worse. How can you ensure your organization is taking the right steps to mitigate this threat - and what can you, as an individual, do to help? These articles by experts and researchers will help you understand how climate change is affecting the future of business.

Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller—beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back—but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity a heads-up about the challenges which are coming. A mission which will take him five million years to complete. Not only is Hackett exploring unknown space, but he will return to a vastly different time.

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature.

The year 2157. For generations, the sky had been a seamless, unblemished gray – a testament to humanity's triumph over a volatile world. Gone were the tantrums of nature, the scorching summers and brutal winters, the deluges and droughts that had once shaped civilizations and shattered them. Twenty-two degrees Celsius. Constant. Everywhere. The Earth Climate Regulator, a silent sentinel woven into the planet's very fabric, ensured a perpetual, comfortable equilibrium. Global warming was a dusty footnote in history books, natural disasters relegated to the realm of forgotten nightmares. In...