Science Fiction About Climate Futures Beyond Simple Apocalypse

Climate fiction can imagine more than the moment things fall apart. These books ask how people build, share water, preserve knowledge, organise work and decide who belongs in a protected place. The selection spans institutional science fiction, satire and more intimate speculative novels, including futures in Bangkok, the Arctic, the Caribbean and Australia. Start with The Ministry for the Future for collective action, New York 2140 for urban adaptation, or The High House for household care. Some worlds are bleak, others hopeful or unresolved. None is a forecast or a planning model: the value is in testing choices, distributions of power and ways of living together.