Climate Science Fiction

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If you love the earth and a compelling read, this book is for you. Dale became an environmental scientist to help save the earth, but at 36, she is jaded with the reality of her job. Meanwhile, just as she struggles to connect with her glamourous mother and navigate her siblings’ complex problems, she and her husband embark on another round of IVF. But just as the suffocating pressures of everyday life threaten to overwhelm Dale, she leaves on a work trip to Thailand. Working on a landfill site halfway around the world, she unexpectedly becomes captivated by a neighbouring village and its...

With full-color illustrations! “Dubh is a writer of great imagination.” (Kirkus Reviews) “The book’s intense world-building is worth the price of admission.” (Kirkus Reviews) “A sprawling, linguistically playful dystopian novel.” (Kirkus Reviews) The earth has been shriveling and dying for thousands of years, and unless Ròna and the Children of the Mother can put a stop to the plundering by the PieceTakers of the Monstrato Corps, the Wayp -- the last refuge of life on earth -- will be lost as well. In the aftermath of The Great Melt, what is left of the natural environment ...

Forty years ago, Walt Kelly's comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities. What will our new world look like? How will we - can we - adapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earth's self-styled ruling species, humans, provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction.

From Joseph Romm, Chief Science Advisor for National Geographic's Years of Living Dangerously series and one of Rolling Stone's "100 people who are changing America," Climate Change offers user-friendly, scientifically rigorous answers to the most difficult (and commonly politicized) questions surrounding what climatologist Lonnie Thompson has deemed "a clear and present danger to civilization."

An imminent threat from a band of looters circles the perimeter of Harper Springs, halting their plans of rebuilding the small town. Ryan grows leery of people he once trusted and begins to investigate the possibility of a traitor among their group. He secretly follows the suspicious person toward the badlands of New Mexico to gather evidence and prove that his suspicions are justified. Throughout the constant changing weather, Ryan has asked the same question - why has this happened?

When scientist Kate Larkin joins a secretive project to re-engineer the climate by resurrecting extinct species, she becomes enmeshed in another, even more clandestine program to recreate our long-lost relatives, the Neanderthals. But when the first of the children, a girl called Eve, is born, Kate cannot bear the thought of her growing up in a laboratory and so elects to abduct her, and raise her alone.

With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier’s point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the Earth.

He has been working since his birth, hiding from the authorities to restore human civilization. Can he save the world from its path of destruction? Arhat is eight years old and almost an orphan. His parents have left him on the earth to control their private expeditions into space. He works with remote assistance from his parents and an elk. The elk is part of a community of elks with enhanced intelligence. Few people know about their existence. Very few know about their activities with Arhat and his parents. A training session of the elks goes out of control. Life of the elk, Arhat and his...

Ryan Gibson has been reunited with his wife and son. Those lucky enough to have survived the tornadoes have made an old church cellar into a temporary refuge. The storms have tapered off, the temperatures are climbing, and the shift in the weather pattern is cause for concern. Everyone is wondering what Mother Nature has in store for them next.

From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands. With a conservationist, female gaze, she questions explorer narratives and the mythic draw of the polar North. Blending travelogue and poetic meditation on place, Jenna Butler draws listeners to the beauty and power of threatened landscapes, asking why some stories in recorded history are privileged....

Earth population: 1.8 billion. In a world already ravaged by climate change, society has become a dystopia of deep fake algorithms, vertical farms and digital totalitarianism. Among the very few remaining free thinkers, a retired extinction ecologist, a marine molecular biologist and a transgender woman accidentally discover a genetic locus that goes back to the origin of life on the planet. Will their discovery help them understand the biggest extinction event that Earth has ever faced? "Tsakraklides has finally given the Earth a voice" - The Literary Licence Podcast "This is impressing me...

The next generation will face the reality that human activity is changing the planet from one geological epoch to another. From this vantage point—two generations across two geological epochs facing a fundamentally changing planet—Larry Rasmussen writes to his grandchildren. As a grandfather invested in a green earth and climate justice as well as a scholar of faith-based earth ethics, Rasmussen bridges this gap between generations to write to the future about climate change, global citizenship, democracy, and legacy.

As Mother Nature wreaks her vengeance, a hidden truth holds the power to save humanity . . . or destroy it. In a world plagued by the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, Cassie Finnegan navigates the chaos as a dedicated member of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue team. From hurricanes to wildfires, Cassie has witnessed the devastation wrought by nature's fury firsthand. But the last six months have been like nothing she’s ever seen. And that was before the heart-breaking discovery she makes amidst the wreckage of an Oklahoma disaster zone. Hidden beneath layers of ...

It is 2085 and Laisve is learning to use the ancient waterways to travel through water and time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as The Brook, she discovers a talisman that will connect her with people from the past two centuries, including a squad of laborers at work on a huge national monument to liberty. As waters rise and a police state encroaches, Laisve must find her way back to the early days of her imperfect country, to forge a bond that might save all their lives—and their shared dream of freedom.

A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains, and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her.

The future, as it unfolds before our very eyes, is a mosaic of choices, consequences, and the unrelenting march of time. These tales, bound together in this collection, offer a glimpse into the myriad paths our world—and others—might take, dictated by our actions, desires, and innovations. Each story, while distinct in its narrative, carries a common thread: the intricate relationship between humanity and the environment. "Whispers of the Last Leaf" paints a poignant image of a world where the touch of nature is a forgotten luxury, a relic of a bygone era. Yet, even in the face of ...

The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past, present and future - taking listeners from Greenland to the Great Plains and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay ‘The End of Nature’, the first piece to popularise both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience.

From the science of greenhouse gases to the intricate logic of cap and trade, Broome reveals how the principles that underlie everyday decision making also provide simple and effective ideas for confronting climate change. Climate Matters is an essential contribution to one of the paramount issues of our time.

Despite living in a time of escalating chaos, Professor Simeon Mackenzie leads a quiet life, if a lonely one. He teaches his graduate students, writes an occasional book, reads a lot, and dwells in a former beach town in California. When a mysterious woman enters his life and gives him a mind-altering device to experiment with, everything changes. Characters in ancient lore, in American history, and in Simeon’s dreams spring vividly to life. What he had taken for the typical past of an adoptee unravels into a pattern of perilous secrets. The real experiment involves a race between ...