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Best Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)

Name: Best Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)
Creator: Community curated

Kim Stanley Robinson, Atwood, Richard Powers or Bacigalupi - whose climate fiction best grapples with our warming future?

Best Cli-fi (climate Fiction) is a structured books dataset with 16 entries. Its fields include Title, Author, Year. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.

Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

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Source:Community curated

Updated:4/9/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 16 rows
Fields: 5 columns
Source: Community curated
Data updated: Apr 9, 2026

Included fields: Title, Author, Year, Setting, Known For.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1962 to 2021; Across 16 preview rows
Author groups: 12 distinct values; Across 16 preview rows

Useful for

Comparing Title, Author, and Year across books entries
Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 16 downloadable records

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Title↕	Author↕	Year↕	Setting↕	Known For↕
The Ministry for the Future	Kim Stanley Robinson	2020	Near-future Zurich, climate agency confronts warming	Barack Obama favorite book, polyphonic structure, policy-heavy fiction
The Overstory	Richard Powers	2018	American forests from past to near-future	Pulitzer Prize 2019, nine characters connected by trees
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	2003	Post-collapse world after bioengineered plague	MaddAddam trilogy opener, genetic engineering, corporate dystopia
The Water Knife	Paolo Bacigalupi	2015	Near-future Southwest US with water wars	Phoenix, Las Vegas, and California fighting over Colorado River water rights
The Windup Girl	Paolo Bacigalupi	2009	23rd-century Bangkok after biotech collapse	Hugo and Nebula Awards, calorie economy, climate refugees
New York 2140	Kim Stanley Robinson	2017	NYC partially drowned by sea-level rise	Venice-like Manhattan, ensemble cast, economic critique
Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	2012	Contemporary Appalachian Tennessee	Monarch butterflies out of place due to climate change, rural perspective
Gold Fame Citrus	Claire Vaye Watkins	2015	Future drought-stricken California	Drought migrants, spreading sand dune ecosystem, literary cli-fi
The Year of the Flood	Margaret Atwood	2009	Pre- and post-collapse near future	Second MaddAddam book, God's Gardeners eco-cult
Parable of the Sower	Octavia E. Butler	1993	2020s California climate and social collapse	Prescient climate-and-class collapse, teen founder of Earthseed religion
The Drowned World	J.G. Ballard	1962	Flooded, tropical future London	Early cli-fi, solar radiation melts icecaps, psychological regression
Solar	Ian McEwan	2010	Contemporary UK, US, and Arctic	Satirical novel about a venal Nobel laureate physicist working on solar energy
American War	Omar El Akkad	2017	2074-2095 America in second civil war over fossil fuels	Oil-ban civil war, climate refugees, South vs. North reversed
The Collapsing Empire	John Scalzi	2017	Far-future interstellar empire facing collapse of FTL network	Climate-change allegory via disappearing Flow streams
Bewilderment	Richard Powers	2021	Near-future America with worsening climate	Booker shortlist, widowed astrobiologist raises neurodiverse son
Blackfish City	Sam J. Miller	2018	Floating Arctic city after climate wars	John W. Campbell Memorial Award, orcamancer and nanobonded polar bear