by Drema Deòraich — A thought-provoking speculative novel warning of the urgency of acting to prevent environmental collapse.
Tag: speculative
One Yellow Eye
by Leigh Radford — London is recovering from a zombie apocalypse after all the zombies have been killed. Or have they? Can a cure be found in case it resurfaces?
A Happy Wife
by Ina L. Nara — In A Happy Wife, cracks are appearing in Ivy’s perfect marriage despite the neural implants that promised eternal love.
Kill Them with Kindness
by Will Carver — An intelligent speculative global-epidemic thriller that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.
Whiteout
by R.S. Burnett — A gripping, claustrophobic environmental thriller. Scientist Rachael fights to survive in Antarctica. Is anyone else alive?
An Ethical Guide to Murder
by Jenny Morris — Intriguing speculative fiction: Thea can take life and give it to someone else. Who deserves extended life and who deserves to die sooner?
The Wonder Drug
by Susanna Beard — An absolutely gripping, unputdownable thriller. Michelle races to implicate a pharmaceutical lab before it’s too late.
Briefly Very Beautiful
by Roz Dineen — Conveys an aching sadness for a lost world, and the exhaustion of daily struggling in a hostile environment.
The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley — Secret government mission involving a myopic civil servant, time travellers and a plot to save our future. Gripping and beautifully written.
Toxxic
by Jane Hennigan — A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
Shaking Hands With Elvis
by Paul Carroll — An apparently light-hearted novel about assisted dying that feeds into a facile, populist narrative. Scare-mongering.
The Lost Cause
by Cory Doctorow — Is the world a lost cause? We should be screaming a warning from the rooftops. I applaud Doctorow for trying.
The Memory of Animals
by Claire Fuller — A group of young people are trapped in hospital during a pandemic that wipes through the population, leaving just them, alone and isolated.
The Silence Project
by Carole Hailey — A gripping feminist novel of ideas about cults, power politics, female empowerment and utilitarianism: does the end really justify the means?
How We End
by LM Juniper — UK-based zombie apocalypse. Exciting, action-packed story with a group of interesting characters, and fun twists on the genre.
Email from the Future
by Michael Rogers — A compelling and thought-provoking speculative novel set in a future where things ARE better, where people managed to fix the world.
This Fragile Earth
by Susannah Wise — A dystopian novel and an implicit plea to take care of our precious, fragile planet. We’ll be sorry when we lose it.
Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson — There’s no magic bullet for the climate. We may need a complete rectification of our values, lifestyles and social structures.
Devolution
by Max Brooks — Experts may warn us and small outbreaks may scare us, yet we still manage to convince ourselves that nothing will go wrong. Till it does.
The Wasteland Saga
by Nick Cole — Introspective, melancholy but ultimately uplifting exploration of the human condition after the apocalypse.