Does anyone know of any good apocalyptic global warming fiction books?
Hi! Does anyone know of any good apocalyptic global warming fiction books? Thx!
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Hi! Does anyone know of any good apocalyptic global warming fiction books? Thx!
I haven’t read it yet but I think Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24612148
Fits that description
thank you!
Nature’s End by Whitney Strieber – not sure its exactly what you are looking for but first that came to mind. Its an oldie –
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson…
We Are Unprepared
last name of author is Reilly.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19299152-daughters-of-the-north
Following.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
What’s fascinating it that book was written in 1979. There’s even a smarmy presidential candidate who’s going to “Make America Great Again.” And if society does fall apart, I think it will be all too much how she forsaw it.
The Water Knife, by Paulo Bacigalupi, plus his book The Windup Girl both deal with climate change apocalypse.
Currently reading one—The List by Patricia Forde (it’s a YA novel)
The Drowned World by JG Ballard, the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood (there’s a lot of stuff going on in those books that led to the apocalypse, but climate change is definitely part of it), American War by Omar El Akkad
I think The Mandibles by Shriver is as well but I can’t 100% remember. It struck me as unique for especially being an economic collapse of the US.
Reading the headline in the newspaper is enough for me
I second The Windup Girl. Also, Autonomous by Annalee Newitz.
Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx & Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam)
These were great books!
Loved them! Just finished MaddAddam.
I second Rhonda Wilson Williamson’s recommendations.
Dry by Neal Shusterman.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/4/22/15386776/earth-day-best-sci-fi-books-bacigalupi-atwood-ballard
I especially recommend the Broken Earth Trilogy. Excellent and unusual read.
Apocalyptic Planet….except its non fiction
@Aaron?
Waiting til i get home.
Don’t remember titles Babe.
The Water Knife and also The Windup Girl by Paulo Baccigalupi
Those are the ones I suggested, too. They’re both good reads, but The Windup Girl is amazing.
@Denise I’m not sure which one I liked better. The Water Knife was a better read, but Wind Up Girl stuck with me longer.
@Bron Windup Girl is more complex, so it probably is a harder read. But it projects a.more multi faceted picture of global harm from climate change. Water Knife deals specifically with the American Southwest’s climate changes and drought, a problem already evident in SoCal, where I live. Both are very good books.
Current affairs!
Maze Runner series.
The Drowned World by JG Ballard. My son had to read it for his environmental studies in literature class and he passed it on to me. It is really thought provoking.
Fire In the Ocean by Renee N Meland and The Thirteenth Continuum series by Jennifer Brody.
Rings of Ice by Piers Anthony.
Not exactly global warming but Life as We Knew It was good.
Kim Stanley Robinson – he has one series very specifically about climate change that I’ve read and several others I think would fit as well.