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Themes labels used: climate collapse, human extinction, environmental stewardship, rewilding, survival, loneliness, motherhood, memory, storytelling, identity, posthumanism, love, grief, sacrifice, ethics of AI, humanity, ecological guilt, digital immortality, choice vs coercion

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Cover of Przewalskis hest by Maja Lunde

Przewalskis hest

Maja Lunde · 2019 · Klimakvartetten

Three lives across centuries are linked by Przewalski horses, as survival, conservation, and family collide.

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Themes labels: extinction · survival · climate change · environmental collapse · conservation · rewilding · parenthood · family · hope · loss · grief · sacrifice · human responsibility · nature versus human interference · migration · addiction · feminism · sexuality · freedom · activism · love · forgiveness · identity

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2312

Kim Stanley Robinson · 2012

A future-history space epic follows a Mercurian world-maker into a solar-system conspiracy amid terraforming and social upheaval.

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Themes labels: climate change · gender fluidity · identity · human nature · politics · economics · environmental collapse · colonization · technology and society · post-scarcity · longevity · transhumanism · ethics of AI · ecology · power · community · survival

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Cover of Arborescence by Rhett Davis

Arborescence

Rhett Davis · 2026

In a near-future world, a couple is divided by a spreading movement of people trying to become trees.

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Themes labels: humanity · nature versus technology · climate anxiety · environmental destruction · identity · change · loss · grief · hope · ethics · purpose · capitalism · alienation · consumerism · AI · human responsibility · self-sacrifice · mass participation · belonging · post-humanism

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Cover of Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed

Terrestrial History

Joe Mungo Reed · 2025

A climate-strained family spans generations and timelines as Earth falters and Mars beckons, with time travel in the mix.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · human survival · planetary stewardship · technology and ethics · legacy · sacrifice · hope and despair · idealism vs pragmatism · politics and climate · home and belonging · migration · escape vs responsibility · grief · regret · futility · human cost · intergenerational trauma · memory · love of Earth · limits of technology · morality · fate vs choice · humanity

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Cover of Under the Blue by Oana Aristide

Under the Blue

Oana Aristide · 2021

A reclusive artist crosses a ruined Europe with two sisters while scientists raise an AI to predict humanity’s fate.

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Themes labels: ethics · humanity · survival · hope · despair · environmental destruction · climate crisis · ecological collapse · AI ethics · human nature · purpose · identity · morality · sacredness of life · responsibility · short-term thinking · self-destruction

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Cover of Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton

Feral Creatures

Kira Jane Buxton · 2021 · Hollow Kingdom

A foul-mouthed crow protects the last human child while the post-apocalyptic animal world grows stranger and deadlier.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental collapse · nature vs humanity · interconnectedness · hope · loss · survival · parenthood · letting go · identity · acceptance · balance · cooperation · mutual aid · grief · love · technology critique · consumerism critique · animal welfare · human responsibility · coming of age · mental health

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Cover of The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi

The Man with the Compound Eyes

Wu Ming-Yi · 2013

A grieving Taiwanese professor and an island boy from a sacrifice tradition are thrown together by an ocean of trash.

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Themes labels: environmental destruction · climate change · ecological balance · loss · memory · identity · loneliness · indigenous culture · tradition vs modernity · colonialism · modernization · grief · survival · human responsibility · interdependency · nature and humanity · cultural preservation · sacrifice · communication · perspective · collective guilt · hope · language

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Cover of Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami · 2024

Interlinked future-fables track humanity’s strange, fragmented attempts to survive extinction, love, and change.

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Themes labels: humanity · evolution · survival · extinction · reproduction · ecology · technology vs nature · cloning · AI ethics · memory · identity · belonging · love · creation and destruction · community · collective life · faith · gender roles · destructive tendencies · species continuity

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Cover of Doggerland by Ben Smith

Doggerland

Ben Smith · 2019

On a remote North Sea wind farm, two maintenance men cling to routine, secrets, and a possible path to escape.

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Themes labels: loneliness · hope · survival · nature versus humanity · climate change · responsibility · sacrifice · escape · memory · mourning · time · entropy · loss · futility · purpose · isolation · resilience · civilizational decline · human insignificance · environmental damage

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Cover of Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

Arboreality

Rebecca Campbell · 2022

Linked stories follow a Vancouver Island community as climate collapse forces them to salvage books, grow food, and remake life.

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Themes labels: climate change · environmental grief · ecological stewardship · adaptation vs mitigation · resilience · hope · loss · memory · community · interdependence · collectivism · survival · future generations · small acts · art and survival · beauty and wonder · knowledge preservation · human impact on nature · sacrifice · mourning · rewilding · sustainable living · patience · long game · social networks

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Cover of Trashlands by Alison Stine

Trashlands

Alison Stine · 2021

In a flood-ravaged future where plastic is currency, a mother in a junkyard camp fights to reclaim her stolen child.

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Themes labels: survival · climate change · environmental collapse · resource scarcity · maternal love · art and creativity · community · humanity · class inequality · gendered violence · patriarchy · capitalism · labor exploitation · hope amid ruin · responsibility · memory · sacrifice

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