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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.
the new wave of climate fiction
i don’t need to explain to anyone why the proliferation climate fiction has skyrocketed over the past few years. this new wave of climate fiction, from 2020-present (ongoing), refuses to exclude climate catastrophe from depictions of or changing world. these works are grounded in present and future realities, the speculative less ‘speculative’, and more predictive.
Post-Apocalyptic Sapphics
Sapphic stories set right as or right after or after or long after the shit hit the fan.
Queer Ecology
Books to widen the possibilities of how we might save ourselves us from the worsening climate crisis by recognizing and learning from the queerness already represented in nature
Sapphic Books You Haven’t Read (Yet)
Sapphic books I don’t see people talking about as much. Mileage may vary!
Nonbinary Protagonists
Books that have nonbinary main characters.
Be Gay, Do Crimes
Books about queer people breaking the law and committing crimes.
SRC Book Club
All the books we are reading in the Stockholm Resilience Centre sci-fi book club!
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