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by 1-more 949 days ago
Ooooh if we're doing climate change novels allow me to add 1) almost anything by Paolo Bacigalupi and 2) two of Kim Stanley Robinson's latest three novels

1. PG short story The Tamarisk Hunter audio and text. What if federalism broke down and California paid a water bounty to keep the Colorado river flowing to CA. https://escapepod.org/2013/02/21/ep384-the-tamarisk-hunter/ canonical author's link: https://windupstories.com/books/pump-six-and-other-stories/t...

2. PG novel The Water Knife expanding on The Tamarisk Hunter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23209924-the-water-knife...

3. KSR novel New York 2140. What if sea rise into the cities led to a financial market on real estate involving day trading on those values? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140?r...

4. KSR novel Ministry for the Future. What if the UN had to put together a team to keep the earth habitable as heatwaves started causing mass casualty events particularly in the subcontinent? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...