Books like The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
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The Marrow Thieves
In a future North America ravaged by climate change, where people have lost the ability to dream, Indigenous people are hunted for their bone marrow, and Frenchie, a Métis boy, flees north with others.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.
The Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
Burn
Two old friends come out of their annual hunting trip in the Maine woods to find the country convulsed by armed secessionist violence, and have to make their way home through it.
Ship Breaker
Nailer, a teenager on the drowned Gulf Coast, strips copper wiring from wrecked oil tankers for a scavenging crew. After a hurricane he finds a beached clipper ship with a rich girl alive in the wreckage, and has to decide whether to strip the ship and leave her or help her.
Brown Girl in the Ring
In a near-future Toronto whose core has been abandoned by the rich, Ti-Jeanne, a young mother, lives with her grandmother, a healer who works with the spirits, while a crime lord hunts for a human heart for a politician's transplant.
Prophet Song
Ireland passes an emergency law that strips citizens of their rights overnight, and one family watches democracy die in real time.
Unwind
After a war fought over abortion, the law lets parents have their children unwound between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, their bodies taken apart for transplants, and three teenagers marked for it, Connor, Risa and Lev, go on the run.
The Light Pirate
Wanda is born during a hurricane in a small Florida town, and as she grows up the water keeps rising and the state, and her family, start to come apart.
The Long Walk
Every May one hundred teenage boys set out from the border between Maine and Canada on the Long Walk, a contest in an alternate America where a walker who drops below four miles an hour gets three warnings, and the last one walking wins anything he wants.
A Guardian and a Thief
In a near-future Kolkata gripped by famine, Ma, who runs a shelter, is a week from joining her husband in Michigan with her father and baby daughter when Boomba, a young man from the shelter, breaks into their flat looking for food and takes their passports and climate visas.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A virus released by terrorists means every pregnant woman in the world now dies, and Jessie Lamb, sixteen, writes her account from the room where her father has locked her up to stop what she has decided to do.