Recs if you like Lost Ark Dreaming...
Climate Fiction: Further reading
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Books from a wide variety of fiction genres that touch on climate themes in some way. Please bear in mind that while cli-fi can be hopeful, it also touches on a lot of difficult themes, so make sure to protect your mental health too.
Really Short Standalone SFF Reads
Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story
aquatic horror
for people who are both terrified of and fascinated by the ocean (like me)
Ant Sized Books that Pack a Punch
Books under 300 pages that leave a lasting impression
Nebula Awards 2025 - Novels & Novellas
Works published in 2024
Best Novel Nominees: 🏆 Someone You Can Build a Nest In • Asunder • The Book of Love • Rakesfall • Sleeping Worlds Have no Memory • A Sorceress Comes to Call
Best Novella Nominees: 🏆 The Dragonfly Gambit • The Butcher of the Forest • Countess • Lost Ark Dreaming • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain • 🚀 The Tusks of Extinction
Legend: 🏆 Winner • 🚀 Hugo Award Winner
Floods, rising sea levels: climate fiction
This list focuses on climate fiction, specifically on floods and rising sea levels set in a near or dystopian future.
Nommo Award winners
The Nommo Awards are literary awards presented by The African Speculative Fiction Society. The awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "science fiction, fantasy, stories of magic and traditional belief, alternative histories, horror and strange stuff that might not fit in anywhere else."
All of the Nommo Award winners in the novel and novella categories
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