‘It’s not climate change, it’s everything change’: sci-fi authors take on the global crisis

Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plots

Science fiction has always dealt with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and the climate has often formed the backdrop of the human struggles.

Some of the biggest names writing in the genre have tackled the climate crisis and its apocalyptic or dystopian consequences - Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather.