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‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: Sci-fi authors take on the global crisis
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots.
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A grove of tree books for Arbor Day
These 12 books capture the wonder, tell the history, and predict the climate-changed future of the trees with which we share the planet.
Climate fiction will not save us
As the world burns, readers increasingly look to climate fiction for hope, predictions, and actionable solutions. But can the genre really be a manual for useful change?
Imagine 2200 editors' picks
Three climate fiction stories handpicked by our contest editors, featuring tales of daring and adventure set in futures of thriving, sovereign Indigenous communities.
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'The Deluge’ is a climate nightmare — and it’s based on reality
The Deluge stars both the people trying to save the world and the ones wrecking it: a scientist, an advertising strategist, a math genius, a drug addict, politicians, activists, and right-wing authoritarians.
Opinion
Kate Grenville: I used to be passive on climate change. A Helen Garner fan pushed me to act
Writers aren’t science experts, Grenville writes. But they might be able to influence their readers to cast their ballots for the climate.
A sci-fi writer returns to Earth: ‘The real story is the one facing us’
Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His focus now is on solving real problems — like climate change.
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