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• Clean Air

  a Novel

  Blake, Sarah (Poet),

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  "In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer..."

• Appleseed

  a Novel

  Bell, Matt, 1980-

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  "In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blackfish City

  a Novel

  Miller, Sam J.,

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  "When a climate-wars project involving the construction of a sophisticated floating city in the Arctic Circle begins to succumb to corruption and crime, the arrival of a woman riding an orca at the side of a polar-bear companion subtly brings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Goliath

  Onyebuchi, Tochi,

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  "In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry for the Future

  Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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  "The 2025 Paris Agreement begets the "Ministry for the Future," led by pragmatic Irishwoman Mary Murphy, to ensure Earth's future through the reversal of climate change. Simultaneously, U.S. clinician Frank miraculously survives an extinction-level…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Noor

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  "Okorafor's (Remote Control) latest is an Africanfuturist novel (a mode she describes as "specifically…rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view" that doesn't center the West), set in a near-future Nigeria. Protagonist AO knows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Termination Shock

  a Novel

  Stephenson, Neal,

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  A sweeping, prescient new science fiction thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

• Trashlands

  Stine, Alison, 1978-

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  "In an environmentally wrecked near-future, plastic is the main currency, and migrant workers like Coral survive by harvesting it from the fields and streams to sell. Coral herself is saving money to rescue her son, kidnapped by child labor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ruins

  a Novel

  Smith, Scott, 1965 July 13-

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  "The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico as, on an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search of one of their group--the young German, who, in pursuit of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation