Climate Future

Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late. A warning and a rallying-cry. 'Read it and weep, or read it and win' Chris Packham A global refugee crisis. Extreme storms. Agriculture devastated. Economic ruin. Societal collapse. These are not just possibilities but likely outcomes of our...

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson's mission to bring together the fight against climate change and the global struggle for human rights has taken her all over the world. It also brought her to a heartening revelation: that that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. 

When the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating the climate crisis—moving from ache to action, doubt to possibility. For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass. “Wisdom about what...

Get ready for a thrilling ride with Silo 42: Deception, the first book in the Silo 42 series! In a post-apocolyptic world torn apart by war, 50 isolated underground Silos have been built to protect the last remaining humans. But Silo 42 is different - a society that embraces Native American values and thrives in secrecy. However, their prosperity may be short-lived as Silo 1 becomes suspicious of their success and threatens to expose them. With the fate of his Silo and its inhabitants in his hands, Ahotay Lathrop must navigate a delicate balance to protect his people. But will they be able ...

The Silo 42 adventure continues ... Connection, the second thriller in the Protopian Silo 42 series, begins four years after the end of book one Deception. Life underground continues but change is afoot. Ahotay, the Silo Chief and Native American grandson of the first Silo 42 Head of IT, has requested as his dying wish, that the many life-enhancing lessons learned by the Silo 42 residents be shared with other silos. This noble yet dangerous request carries great risk if discovered by Silo 1. It is up to Stewart the courageous shadow to Chief Ahotay, and his “bad-ass” senior electrical ...

The epic silo saga continues ... Silo 42: Exodus is the third installment in the Protopian Silo 42 series. Readers will be enthralled by this blend of elements in the Biblical “Exodus” story with the futurist cult classic “Mad Max.” After five years, Silo 42 has fulfilled Ahotay’s vision of improving life and sharing sustainability practices with other silos. Now a group of residents, fueled by dreams of a better life, plan to do the unthinkable. They wish to go outside -- a full breach from The Pact. A volunteer team of engineers, farmers, medical staff, mechanical experts, and ...

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed...

Fans of Hugh Howey and Kim Stanley Robinson will find much to love in Silo 42: Arrival—a hopeful post-apocalyptic novel about building a better world after the old one has failed. After surviving the exodus from Silo 42 and the long march east to the Atlantic Ocean, the pioneers finally reach the coast—only to discover that freedom is far more complicated than escape. As the community begins building Sunrise Village from the ground up, new alliances, old conflicts, and unexpected realities reshape how they build a resilient life. Calen, one of the silo engineers, is invited into the ...

Microbiologist Graysha Brady-Phillips accepts an offer to assist in terraforming the planet Goddard for two reasons: she needs the hazardous duty pay, and she hopes the planet's colonists can provide a cure for the genetic disorder that is slowly killing her. But such genetic engineering has...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

In 2002, an Antarctic ice shelf that had survived for about 10,000 years broke apart in roughly five weeks. Scientists had expected the ice to go one day. What stunned them was the speed. That collapse is the clearest picture we have of a tipping point: a part of the planet that holds steady for a long time, then changes fast, and doesn’t easily change back. Earth’s Tipping Points is a clear, sourced guide to climate change and its tipping points for readers with no science background. It explains what these thresholds are, how scientists find them, which ones are closest, and what has ...

Audiobook narrated by Gibson Frazier "As If We Were Staying is more than a memoir; it’s an antidote to despair—a vision for how to commit to hope on a planet where the outlook feels increasingly dire."—Ari Shapiro, journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Best Strangers in...

Hope drove them upward. Now survival on the surface will test them. Silo 42: Journey is the fourth gripping saga in the Silo 42 series. Having left the only home they've known, a determined caravan of former silo dwellers steps outside into a world no one in over a century has ever seen. They quickly discover that the surface is wilder and more dangerous than they imagined—untamed forests, vanished cities, evolved animals, and unfamiliar weather. Their food is limited. Their maps are guesswork. And the rules of survival are unlike anything they have imagined. Led by skilled scouts, ...

When Denver breaks under climate collapse, 61-year-old Claire Cutler loses it all—and joins a gran caravan to quit surviving and start living. The crash doesn’t come all at once, across the whole country. For Claire Cutler and her bad-influence friend Lisa, it starts the day Colorado goes bankrupt. They're both laid off from their state jobs. The New Dust Bowl has emptied the Plains. Climate refugees flood into Denver. There’s no housing, no food, no work—and no help coming. When Claire sends her dual-citizen granddaughter to safety in Canada, something breaks in her. Her last tie ...

Modern military thriller meets hard science fiction in this harrowing narrative where nations face off across the planet and up in space. When climate change pushes the United States to the brink of civil war, China tries to take advantage of the countrywide chaos by launching an assault in force. The Chinese Communist Party finds that the most powerful nation in the world can still defend her title in spite of the deadly domestic disturbances. A cold war sets in, which turns hot again when the terrestrial superpowers clash over the ability to harvest asteroid-bound precious metals in space...

The future isn't arriving one trend at a time. It's arriving all at once. Right now, five massive forces are accelerating simultaneously: artificial intelligence is rewriting how we work, climate change is reshaping where and how we live, demographic shifts are upending economies, geopolitical realignment is redrawing the global order, and macroeconomic pressures are transforming what prosperity even means. Individually, each of these would be enough to define a generation. Together, they're about to collide in ways almost nobody is preparing for. The Next Ten Years doesn't just list ...

From Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and shaped America’s idea of the future. During his lifetime, Buckminster Fuller was hailed as one of the greatest...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group of dynamic people who are willing to imagine what seems impossible, and articulate those visions with...

*Now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal* A taut, psychological thriller from Iain Reid, “one of the most talented purveyors of weird, dark narratives in contemporary fiction” (Los Angeles Review of Books). Severe climate change has ravaged the country, leaving...

“Gripping…Ackerman and Stavridis stage a harrowing global conflict that pits military might against an appetite for justice… equal parts haunting and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet...