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- Make Room! Make Room!
Harry Harrisonstandalone novel1966
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Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of both unchecked population growth on society and the hoarding of resources by a wealthy minority. It was originally serialized in Impulse magazine.
- The Windup Universe
series3 books2005
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- Mother of Storms
John Barnesstandalone novel1994
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From the flaps of the Tor first edition: "It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly warming the Earth's climate. In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane thousands of miles across is forming, larger than any in human history. A storm with winds of supersonic speed. A storm that changes direction at whim. A storm that refuses to die. A storm so vast it spawns dozens more in its wake... Blinded by intrigue, expedience, and greed, the world's politicians and power brokers have ignored the killer storms threat until it is too late. Already the death toll is in the tens of millions, as it savages the Pacific coast, while its devil's brood of smaller storms are wreaking havoc across the face of the planet. While the survivors scramble for advantage, a handful of courageous men and women undertake a daring, desperate plan to save humanity from total destruction - a plan so visionary it may alter forever the future of the human race."
- The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2020
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The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction novel by American science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2020. Set in the near future, the novel follows a subsidiary body, established under the Paris Agreement, whose mission is to act as an advocate for the world's future generations of citizens as if their rights were as valid as the present generation's. While the ministry pursues various ambitious projects, the effects of climate change are determined to be the most consequential. The plot primarily follows Mary Murphy, the head of the titular Ministry for the Future, and Frank May, an American aid worker traumatized by experiencing a deadly heat wave in India. Many chapters are devoted to other characters' accounts of future events, as well as their ideas about ecology, economics, and other subjects.
- The Triffids
series3 books1951
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John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) opens with a meteor-shower-like event that leaves most of Britain's population blind, throwing civilization into collapse just as triffids, an aggressive and mobile species of poisonous plant, become free to hunt the helpless survivors. Simon Clark's authorized sequel The Night of the Triffids (2001) picks up a generation later, narrated by the original protagonist's son as he confronts a new triffid-dominated world, and John Whitbourn's The Age of the Triffids extends the shared setting further still. Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.
- Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1976
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Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a science fiction novel by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in 1976. The novel is composed of three parts, "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," "Shenandoah," and "At the Still Point," and is set in a post-apocalyptic era, a concept popular among authors who took part in the New Wave Science Fiction movement in the 1960s.
- How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsustandalone novel2022
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(Robin MacArthur, in Scientific American): "[A] dystopian narrative set in the near future about an ancient virus that is uncovered by a scientist ... while she is researching melting permafrost in the Arctic."
- This Is the Way the World Ends
James Morrowstandalone novel1986
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This Is the Way the World Ends is a post-apocalyptic novel by American writer James K. Morrow, published in 1986.
- Colony
Ben Bovastandalone novel1978
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Colony continues the story Ben Bova began in Millennium, following astronaut-turned-administrator Chet Kinsman years later as the head of an orbiting space habitat that has become Earth's only real refuge from a planet buckling under overpopulation, food shortages and unrest. Getting a place in the habitat is a matter of life and death for millions who will never be chosen, and as Earth's governments grow more desperate to control or dismantle the colony outright, Kinsman has to decide how far he'll go to protect the world he's built off-world. Bova later folded both novels together into the omnibus The Kinsman Saga. Part of Ben Bova's Chet Kinsman series.
- Earthworks
Brian W. Aldissstandalone novel1965
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Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian science fiction novel by British science fiction author Brian Aldiss. The novel draws its premise from prevalent fears about population growth and overcrowding of the Earth.
- The Future
Naomi Aldermanstandalone novel2023
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The Future is a 2023 science fiction novel by English writer Naomi Alderman, published by Simon & Schuster. The novel is set in a future dystopia where the world has been altered by environmental crisis and a powerful technocracy.
- The Last Gasp
Trevor Hoylestandalone novel1983
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From the flaps of the Crown first edition: "When British marine biologist Gavin Chase stepped out into the windswept wastes at the Halley Bay antarctic research station one morning, the last thing he expected to see was a sled team coming out of nowhere carrying a half-mad, half-frozen Russian scientist babbling an incomprehensible warning. But that warning would threaten the future of the human race and force Chase to make some of the hardest decisions of his life. Months later, at a Geneva environmental conference, Chase meets Cheryl Detrick, the daughter of Theo Detrick, the grand old man of diatom research. Chase, the Detricks, and Soviet scientist Boris Stanovnik theorize that the oxygen-producing microscopic plants of the world's oceans are dying and the level of atmospheric pollutants has finally exceeded the ability of the planet's ecology to recycle them. There is also good reason to believe that the superpowers are planning to wage a new type of environmental warfare. Sooner or later there will be nothing left to breathe. So begins a race against the future. Chase and Cheryl, now lovers, struggle to avert ecological catastrophe as agents of the military-industrial complex hunt them down... and as a growing belt of unbreathable gases spreads outward from the equator, uprooting millions. Their enemies are Lloyd Madden, an insane military mastermind planning to seed the earth with poison and then repopulate it with a race of mutants, and Joseph Earl Gelstrom, a wealthy chemical manufacturer who has Cheryl's father killed to hide his involvement. But Gelstrom himself falls victim to pollution sickness, and he repents. To raise money to finance a research team, Chase must make an unholy alliance with the dying Gelstrom, but this is too much for Cheryl, who leaves him. As more and more of the world becomes uninhabitable, as industries and governments collapse and chaos reigns, as the oceans fill up with dioxin, as the climate changes and mutant life-forms encroach upon the last refuges of humankind, Chase leads a last desperate mission to find and rescue Cheryl and to lead his team of scientists to safety."
- The Hopkins Manuscript
R. C. Sherriffstandalone novel1939
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The Hopkins Manuscript is a dystopian science fiction novel by R. C. Sherriff, first published in 1939 by Victor Gollancz. In 1958 it was reissued in a revised edition as a Pan paperback under the title The Cataclysm. The novel was later republished under its original title by The Macmillan Company in 1963 and by Persephone Books in 2002.
- Earthseed
series7 books1993
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Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, follow Lauren Olamina as she survives the collapse of a climate-ravaged, near-future United States and founds a belief system built on the idea that "God is Change." The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed. Later graphic-novel adaptations retell the same two stories rather than continuing the narrative.
- The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1953
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" Behind a spectacular meteor shower actually hides the beginning of an invasion by a mysterious and powerful alien race. Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible. The coalitioned forces of the whole world are worthless, powerless in the face of the indecipherable and deadly plans of a superior intelligence, capable of bringing the entire planet to the brink of catastrophe" Goodreads May 20, 2022
- Gold Fame Citrus
Claire Vaye Watkinsstandalone novel2015
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Gold Fame Citrus is a 2015 speculative fiction novel by Claire Vaye Watkins. It is her second book, but her first novel. The work received positive reviews.
- War Against the Chtorr
series7 books1983
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The War Against the Chtorr is a series of science fiction novels by American writer David Gerrold. The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story. For a time, he was uncertain how many books there would be in the end but plans on seven. As of 2022, four books have been completed. As of 2017, a fifth and sixth were in the works, 24 years after the publication of the fourth book.
- The Genocides
Thomas M. Dischstandalone novel1965
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The Genocides is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch, first published by Berkley Books as a Berkley Medallion paperback. It was Disch's first novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel for 1965.
- The Sheep Look Up
John Brunnerstandalone novel1972
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The Sheep Look Up is a 1972 dystopian science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United States. It was nominated for the 1972 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
- The Death of Grass
John Christopherstandalone novel1956
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The Death of Grass is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Sam Youd under the pen name John Christopher. The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. The Death of Grass was the first of several post-apocalyptic novels written by Youd. The novel was written in a matter of weeks and liberated him from his day job.
- Rings of Ice
Piers Anthonystandalone novel1974
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When an attempt at providing humans with a new energy source goes disastrously wrong, causing a worldwide mass disaster, a handful of random men and women attempt to work together to survive, despite their individual peculiarities.
- The Wind from Nowhere
J. G. Ballardstandalone novel1962
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The Wind from Nowhere is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1962, it was his debut novel. He had previously published only short stories.
- O-Zone
Paul Therouxstandalone novel1986
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O-zone is a science fiction novel by the American author Paul Theroux published in 1986.
- The Seeds of Time
Kay Kenyonstandalone novel1997
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Clio Finn is a Dive pilot, one of the rare, talented professionals capable of guiding a ship into the time stream. But she is walking the razor's edge of burnout - which no Dive pilot has ever escaped - relying on drugs to buy her more missions. The future of Earth may depend on those missions into the distant past, in search of viable plant species to revitalize a graying planet. For Clio knows just how high the stakes are: she and two colleagues have made a forbidden Dive to the future, just long enough to record a dying Earth's last transmissions. Now she is returning with a payload from an impossibly lush paradise. There is nothing she won't do, no crime she won't commit, to plant the seeds of new life on Earth - seeds that could halt the planets death spiral... or destroy and entire civilization. (from the back cover of the Bantam Spectra first edition)
