Science fiction has always been concerned with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and climate has often formed the backdrop to human struggles. Some of the biggest names writing in the genre have addressed the climate crisis and its apocalyptic or dystopian consequences – Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, Cormac McCarthy’s The Journey, Bruce Sterling’s Heavy Weather. But a new generation of writers now believe that it is impossible to write “near-future” science fiction without putting the climate emergency at the forefront of their speculative fiction. For many, this is because they are living through the crisis and can only too easily imagine what might happen if real-life behavior doesn’t change. (David Barnett, The Guardian)