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Written by Archivist Liz on 2025-01-13 at 09:13

I’d like to read more fiction exploring #climatechange this year & would love some recommendations. In the past couple years I’ve read Parable of the Sower, How Beautiful We Were, and Something New Under the Sun. (I loved the first two, the last one was meh.) Suggestions?

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Written by Robin FRANÇOIS 💿 on 2025-01-13 at 09:14

@archivist_Liz Not a specific recommendation but more a genre that you might like: solar punk.

A very well-known author is Becky Chambers and her book "A Psalm for the Wild-Built*-

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Written by Archivist Liz on 2025-01-13 at 09:16

@r2gf yes! I’ve heard of the genre, but never read any books that fall into it. Really good idea to explore. Thanks!!

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Written by Roxana Maurer (Popistașu) on 2025-01-16 at 09:28

@r2gf @archivist_Liz I remember that Steven Gonzalez Monserrate also mentioned it in his keynote at iPRES 2022 in Glasgow. I found these short stories as an intro to solar punk: https://www.futurefiction.org/the-bright-mirror/?lang=en

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Written by annaf on 2025-01-13 at 09:18

@archivist_Liz I’d recommend The Sea and Summer by George Turner (also called The Drowning Towers), it’s dated in some ways but the characters are really vivid and it makes me feel seen, like someone in the 1980s sympathised with our plight.

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Written by Jo Rhodes on 2025-01-13 at 09:32

@archivist_Liz Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson if you haven't read it already.. first chapter is about a wet bulb heat event in India and quite harrowing so you have been warned. The book overall is excellent and I find it fascinating that many of the cutting edge science projects mentioned are starting to happen in real life. Ironically in the book a huge flood in LA caused the state to really go for rewilding and doing things differently..wonder if the current fires could be the thing to bring about those sorts of changes.

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Written by Dahie on 2025-01-13 at 09:45

@archivist_Liz Robinson "The Ministry for the future" for near-future and Claire North "Notes of the burning age" for far-future

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