I am utterly fancinated with a new subgenre of storts called Cli Fi thats hard science fiction with a focus on the environment.
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Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
This list collects fiction books that deal with climate change. Examples are Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" or "The Aviator" by Gareth Renowden. More recently, Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior" and Nathaniel Rich's "Odds Against Tomorrow" have achieved the status of best-selling cli-fi novels, demonstrating the differences between cli-fi and science fiction: cli-fi is more literary and more centered on human psychology.
| 1 |  | Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 182,022 ratings | |
| 2 |  | The Windup Girl by 3.74 avg rating — 54,265 ratings | |
| 3 |  | The Water Knife by 3.83 avg rating — 16,455 ratings | |
| 4 |  | The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) by 4.06 avg rating — 84,987 ratings | |
| 5 |  | The Beast of Cretacea by 4.07 avg rating — 288 ratings | |
| 6 |  | The Wastelanders by 4.60 avg rating — 43 ratings | |
| 7 |  | Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) by 3.84 avg rating — 54,367 ratings | |
| 8 |  | Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital #1) by 3.53 avg rating — 3,106 ratings | |
| 9 |  | The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by 4.33 avg rating — 5,365,255 ratings | |
| 10 |  | MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) by 3.99 avg rating — 47,051 ratings | |
| 11 |  | Station Eleven by 4.03 avg rating — 219,657 ratings | |
| 12 |  | The Lorax by 4.35 avg rating — 236,983 ratings | |
| 13 |  | Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2) by 3.92 avg rating — 27,884 ratings | |
| 14 |  | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by 4.08 avg rating — 269,104 ratings | |
| 15 |  | Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by 4.20 avg rating — 567,541 ratings | |
| 16 |  | Flight Behavior by 3.76 avg rating — 69,899 ratings | |
| 17 |  | The Road by 3.96 avg rating — 597,786 ratings | |
| 18 |  | Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3) by 3.92 avg rating — 22,446 ratings | |
| 19 |  | Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1) by 3.74 avg rating — 36,081 ratings | |
| 20 |  | The Islands at the End of the World (Islands at the End of the World, #1) by 3.65 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
score: 896, and 9 people voted
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| 21 |  | State of Fear by 3.69 avg rating — 73,421 ratings
score: 796, and 8 people voted
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| 22 |  | Gold Fame Citrus by 3.29 avg rating — 6,164 ratings
score: 781, and 8 people voted
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| 23 |  | Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) by 4.14 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
score: 673, and 7 people voted
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| 24 |  | Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital, #2) by 3.68 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
score: 672, and 7 people voted
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| 25 |  | Sixty Days and Counting (Science in the Capital, #3) by 3.66 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
score: 669, and 7 people voted
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| 26 |  | A Being Darkly Wise by 3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 599, and 6 people voted
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| 27 |  | 1/2986 (1/2986 #1) by 3.85 avg rating — 589 ratings
score: 500, and 5 people voted
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| 27 |  | Global Cooling (The Time Bubble #2) by 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 500, and 5 people voted
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| 29 |  | The Drowned World by 3.54 avg rating — 9,911 ratings
score: 484, and 5 people voted
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| 30 |  | The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by 3.71 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
score: 481, and 5 people voted
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| 31 |  | The Last Oracle (Sam Jardine Crime Thrillers, #3) by 4.57 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 400, and 4 people voted
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| 31 |  | 2047 Short stories from Our Common Future by 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 400, and 4 people voted
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| 31 |  | A Rain of Night Birds by it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 400, and 4 people voted
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| 34 |  | New York 2140 by 3.59 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
score: 397, and 4 people voted
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| 35 |  | Ice (1/2986 #3) by 4.31 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 396, and 4 people voted
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| 36 |  | Fog (1/2986 #2) by 4.15 avg rating — 226 ratings
score: 394, and 4 people voted
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| 37 |  | Memory of Water by 3.71 avg rating — 3,923 ratings
score: 391, and 4 people voted
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| 38 |  | The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2) by 3.89 avg rating — 9,029 ratings
score: 390, and 4 people voted
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| 39 |  | The Bone Clocks by 3.82 avg rating — 71,268 ratings
score: 380, and 4 people voted
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| 40 |  | Snow Crash by 4.03 avg rating — 200,095 ratings
score: 371, and 4 people voted
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| 41 |  | Some Fine Day by 3.79 avg rating — 585 ratings
score: 300, and 3 people voted
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| 41 |  | The Elementalists by 3.95 avg rating — 150 ratings
score: 300, and 3 people voted
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| 43 |  | Mother of Storms by 3.76 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
score: 299, and 3 people voted
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| 44 |  | Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity by 4.01 avg rating — 919 ratings
score: 297, and 3 people voted
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| 44 |  | A Friend of the Earth by 3.66 avg rating — 2,771 ratings
score: 297, and 3 people voted
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| 46 |  | Drowning Towers by 3.85 avg rating — 556 ratings
score: 296, and 3 people voted
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| 47 |  | The Rapture by 3.32 avg rating — 2,054 ratings
score: 294, and 3 people voted
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| 48 |  | The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1) by 4.02 avg rating — 196,049 ratings
score: 293, and 3 people voted
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| 49 |  | Heavy Weather by 3.69 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
score: 281, and 3 people voted
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| 50 |  | Borne by 3.91 avg rating — 11,904 ratings
score: 277, and 3 people voted
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| 51 |  | Starvation Ridge by 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Survival Colony Nine by 3.47 avg rating — 507 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Polly and the One and Only World by 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Lug, Dawn of the Ice Age by 3.90 avg rating — 89 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | The Stone Gate by 3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future by 3.55 avg rating — 2,911 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Haw by 4.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Statisticity by 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | Ruby and the Blue Sky: A Tale of Fame, Power Sacrifice - And Tea. by 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | South Pole Station by 3.48 avg rating — 750 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | The Rain Never Came by 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 51 |  | The Edge of Farallon by it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 200, and 2 people voted
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| 63 |  | Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists by 3.57 avg rating — 263 ratings
score: 199, and 2 people voted
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| 63 |  | Blue Karma by 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 199, and 2 people voted
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| 63 |  | The Rain Never Came by 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 199, and 2 people voted
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| 63 |  | The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by 4.31 avg rating — 50,838 ratings
score: 199, and 2 people voted
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| 67 |  | Raiders by 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 197, and 2 people voted
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| 67 |  | Jia Ting: The Raider Chronicles by it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 197, and 2 people voted
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| 67 |  | Change by 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 197, and 2 people voted
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| 67 |  | Clade by 3.68 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
score: 197, and 2 people voted
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| 71 |  | The Aviator (The Burning World 1) by really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
score: 196, and 2 people voted
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| 71 |  | Escape to Canamith by 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 196, and 2 people voted
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| 71 |  | Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) by 4.22 avg rating — 14,675 ratings
score: 196, and 2 people voted
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| 74 |  | The Day After Tomorrow by 3.89 avg rating — 720 ratings
score: 195, and 2 people voted
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| 74 |  | The Book of Strange New Things by 3.66 avg rating — 23,095 ratings
score: 195, and 2 people voted
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| 74 |  | Not a Drop to Drink (Not a Drop to Drink, #1) by 3.82 avg rating — 10,755 ratings
score: 195, and 2 people voted
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| 77 |  | Solar by 3.24 avg rating — 21,221 ratings
score: 194, and 2 people voted
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| 77 |  | The HAARP Letters by 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 194, and 2 people voted
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| 77 |  | The Dog Stars by 3.91 avg rating — 43,694 ratings
score: 194, and 2 people voted
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| 80 |  | Back to the Garden by 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 192, and 2 people voted
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| 80 |  | Solstice by 3.64 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
score: 192, and 2 people voted
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| 82 |  | Nature's Confession by 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
score: 191, and 2 people voted
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| 82 |  | American War by 3.82 avg rating — 17,039 ratings
score: 191, and 2 people voted
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| 84 |  | Pump Six and Other Stories by 4.03 avg rating — 7,104 ratings
score: 190, and 2 people voted
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| 85 |  | Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction by 3.87 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 189, and 2 people voted
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| 86 |  | The New Atlantis by 3.30 avg rating — 156 ratings
score: 187, and 2 people voted
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| 86 |  | The Bees by 3.67 avg rating — 24,064 ratings
score: 187, and 2 people voted
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| 88 |  | The Remnant (Left Behind, #10) by 4.01 avg rating — 20,799 ratings
score: 184, and 2 people voted
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| 89 |  | The Drought by 3.59 avg rating — 1,609 ratings
score: 182, and 2 people voted
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| 90 |  | Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by 3.66 avg rating — 97,128 ratings
score: 179, and 2 people voted
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| 91 |  | The Great Dune Trilogy by 4.36 avg rating — 54,046 ratings
score: 177, and 2 people voted
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| 92 |  | In the Tears of God (Aquarius Rising #1) by 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | The Healer by 3.11 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | Tipping Point (Robert Spire #1) by 3.68 avg rating — 174 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | HALINE by 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | The Free: by 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | Surviving Abe by 3.70 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | Malevolent Tide by liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | Forever Young Part One by 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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| 92 |  | The Sibyl Reborn by 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
score: 100, and 1 person voted
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199 books · 270 voters · list created April 22nd, 2013 by Karl-Friedrich Lenz (votes) .
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message 1: by Peter (new)
Congratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.
Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads
Peter wrote: "Congratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.
Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads"
I support your congratulations! I too have written a cli-fi novel Forever Young...Cli-fi is important - a wake-up call, we can't go on the way we are and Dan Bloom has done so much to remind us all - now, it's our turn as writers!
Gateway to Forever
message 3: by Paul (new)
This is a great list - thank you! If you're interested in cli-fi, it would be great to see you at the folloiwng Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/32...Paul
message 4: by Paul (new)
Peter wrote: "Congratulations to Dan Bloom for coining the term Cli-Fi !I am glad to see that it is getting universally accepted.
Peter Kubicek
Author of "Memories of Evil" which can be viewed on GoodReads"
I agree, let's keep the momentum up! https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/32...
message 5: by Paul (new)
Here’s a very thought-provoking article by Professor Brigitte Nerlich on the potential role of cli-fi (climate fiction) to help engage people on climate changehttp://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makings...
message 6: by Mary (new)
You and your readers might be interested in joininghttps://plus.google.com/u/0/communiti..., a new community group discussion nature themes in literature and the arts, with a focus on climate change
message 7: by Mitchell (new)
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science is non-fiction. And therefore presumably should not be on this list.
message 8: by Angelina (new)
The Hunger Games is not about climate change, nor is Station Eleven, nor are several of the rest of the books on this list. Who put these together????
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