Climate Climate Fiction
All Stories
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The Case of the Turned Tide
Two detectives face an ethical dilemma as they solve a mystery for a corporate client with the power to improve the lives of millions.
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A Séance in the Anthropocene
Long after the age of fossil fuels has drawn to a close, a Cherokee teenager attending an elite tribal school puts the last ghosts of coal and oil to rest.
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The Tree in the Back Yard
A woman with a gift for communing with spirits struggles to hear her own father in a forest of the dead.
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Canvas – Wax – Moon
With laughter, love, and the help of an old witch, a family provides unconditional support to its witching-hour baby when they need it most.
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Broken From the Colony
Trans girls find acceptance and security among the coral as sole survivors of a storm that submerges their Caribbean island.
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The Cloud Weaver’s Song
In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.
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Afterglow
As the wealthy flee Earth, a young woman must decide whether to follow her partner to a new world or stay behind to save a dying planet.
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An AI plots to take over a community’s solar power in this short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
The all-knowing computer running Chicago’s clean-energy system has plans for the micro-grid that provides energy sovereignty to a South Side neighborhood in this story from the anthology "Cities of Light."
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Introducing our star judges for Imagine 2200, Fix’s cli-fi contest
Sheree Renée Thomas, Adrienne Maree Brown, Morgan Jerkins, and Kiese Laymon share their approaches to cli-fi, and what they hope to see in Imagine 2200.
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Under the Grid: Detroit goes full-on solar in this fictional future
This optimistic sci-fi tale imagines the Motor City around 2040, domed by a massive solar-powered grid — and what life might be like there.
