At io9 Maddie Stone tagged seven great novels that show the real terrifying prospect of climate change, including:
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Unabashedly dystopian, Paolo Bacigalupi’s award-winning novel about an Earth ravaged by genetic engineering and global warming was the book that convinced me fiction has a role to play in the climate conversation. Set in Thailand several centuries in the future, The Windup Girl follows scientists working for Monsanto-esque calorie corporations as they attempt to steal precious genetic material from a country devastated by GMO diseases. Somehow, nothing about this tragic future comes off heavy-handed or preachy—it’s just a great biopunk thriller with some seriously flawed protagonists. If you haven’t read The Windup Girl, fix that immediately.
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the other books on the list.
The Windup Girl is among
Diana Biller's 22 great science fiction and fantasy stories that can help you make sense of economics,
Torie Bosch's twelve great pandemic novels,
Madeleine Monson-Rosen's top 15 books that take place in science fiction and fantasy versions of the most fascinating places on Earth and Annalee Newitz's lists of
books to prepare you for the economic apocalypse and
the 35 essential posthuman novels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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