Cli-fi Stories

An oncoming reporter finds out a government secret she wasn't meant to find. In a world of pollution, poverty, and societal corruption, she finds out more about the world she lives in... and what dwells inside of her.

Always wanting to go higher, you end up burning your wings.

In modern Guangzhou and Hong Kong a few years from now, an ancient Chinese water dragon vows to avenge his daughter's death, to stop the poisoning of the seas by humans. He is joined and opposed by sorcerous humans and millenia-old deities, seducers and emergent technologies. He lives in a hyper-modern world, is chauffeured in a Tesla and sails on an antique electric junk as he plots and is plotted against.

Beneath the relentless sun of the Crimson Waste, where rain had become a myth whispered in hushed tones, a young nomad named Lyra dared to dream of a wetter past. Consumed by a fascination with relics of a forgotten age, she unearths a hidden technology promising to resurrect the life-giving tears of the sky. Met with doubt and forced to brave treacherous journeys, Lyra awakens a dormant machine, unleashing not only rain, but unforeseen threats. With unwavering resolve and resourceful adaptation, the nomads transform the Waste, carving a verdant legacy from the ashes. Yet, the whispers of the silent rain serve as a constant reminder - even in the most desolate landscapes, hope, like the tears from the sky, can bloom anew.

In "TerraQuest: The Reclamation Chronicles," we meet Alex Renn, a disillusioned environmental scientist seeking solace in the virtual world of TerraQuest, a game designed to tackle real-world environmental issues. As he enters this new world and chooses the Eco Mage class, he begins to learn about the unique blend of game mechanics and real-world environmental science that make up TerraQuest. Alex forms a team with SolarFlare, GreenArrow, and MelodyOfMolecules, dubbing themselves The Green Guardians. Together, they face increasingly difficult quests that mirror real-world ecological crises. Their successes attract attention from both the TerraQuest community and the game's developers, GaiaTech. In the midpoint of the story, The Green Guardians discover a hidden questline that reveals GaiaTech's goal: to use solutions found in TerraQuest to inspire real-world environmental action. However, they also uncover a corporate conspiracy that threatens both the virtual and real environments. As tensions rise within the team due to betrayal and conflict, Alex must confront his leadership and trust issues. The themes of the story include the power of collaboration and community in tackling global challenges, the potential for virtual worlds to inspire real-world change, the intersection of technology, gaming, and activism as a force for good, and the importance of leadership, trust, and innovation in the face of environmental crises. "Awakening in TerraQuest" is a thrilling LitRPG novel that takes readers on an adventure through a virtual world that has real-world consequences. It is a story of hope, resilience, and the power of individuals to effect change in the face of daunting challenges.

The end began with a whimper, where the Sun had always been at its most fervent: Rome, and in all the cities, regions, and countries clinging to the equatorial line. By the time Alfredo Giancarlo was born, the end was unalterably established and advancing without much fanfare.

The planet was destroyed hundreds of years ago leaving behind a single city, enclosed in an forcefield. Society is simple and everyone has a part to play. However, shocking revelations of humanity's past leave Florrie questioning everything that she knows while trying to navigate new relationships and keep her dark past hidden. Inspired by the Divergent series (Veronica Roth) and Nineteen-Eighty Four (George Orwell)

A gripping, post-apocalyptic survival story that explores themes of despair, ingenuity, and the resilient power of community in a world ravaged by environmental collapse.

In the second book of the Daughters of Light series, the demon-hunted Seers are in a race against time to return a stolen ring. Twin sisters Jade and Jasmine are finally together after a five-year separation, but there's no time to enjoy the reunion. As Seers, the sisters are being hunted by demons spilling through the rift, and the city is on high alert against terrorism threats. The Protectors at Beaconsfield have gathered as many Seers as possible, as the countries that haven't been destroyed by climate change are starting to close their borders to refugees. On top of it all, Jasmine discovers that someone has stolen a ring with the power to control the demons, and the Final Battle between the Daughters of Light and the forces of darkness is approaching more quickly than anyone predicted.

In a world suffocated by perpetual smoke, where the blue of the sky exists only in forbidden photographs and what remains of the planet agonizes under layers of pollution and lies, a seven-year-old girl holds in her eyes something everyone believed lost: hope. Alicia grows up between shadows and secrets. Her mother carries two lives imprisoned in her gaze. Her father is only a vague memory, perhaps manipulated, perhaps real. And the Writings - the only permitted truth - dictate what can be said, thought, remembered. But Alicia knows too much for her age. She knows what mustn't be spoken. She knows that some questions are dangerous. And even so, she continues pointing to the dark sky, asking: "What do you think it was like?" Between toxic fogs that swallow everything like sticky fingers, fragments of a forbidden past, and the suffocating awareness that every word matters, Alicia must discover what really happened to the planet - and to the people who once dared to tell the truth. But in a world where even innocence can be manipulated, can a small child challenge the system that imprisons humanity? A visceral and thrilling dystopia that will leave you breathless. If you love stories of survival, silent resistance, and characters who carry the weight of the world on their shoulders, prepare to dive into a dark universe where each chapter reveals one more layer of mystery - and danger.

Lyra, a fearless teenager, is about to challenge the traditions of a society where women have chosen to exclude men in order to live in harmony with bears...

The year is 2030, and climate change is making life on Earth more challenging. Fourteen-year-old Jasmine Guzman is struggling to come to terms with the abduction of her twin sister, Jade, and her mother's illness. Things go from bad to worse when a series of bizarre occurrences make Jasmine wonder if she's losing her mind. But, with help from Raphael, a boy at her new school, Jasmine learns she actually has special powers that are putting her life in danger. Most surprising, she learns that her sister isn't actually missing ... Jasmine just needs to look in the right place: The-Place-in-Between, where the demons dwell.

Ever since climate change has begun to disrupt everyday life for more and more people, climate disasters have made kids disappear. Where are all of the children displaced by Hurricane Katrina? Have we fully accounted for the families leaving the American Midwest due to prolonged droughts? How do you keep track of climate refugees if they are not old enough to vote? This novel tells the story of two perspectives on this issue: a teacher and a teenager. K is living in the burnout lane of working as a teacher in the 2050s. Artificial intelligence has changed the field of teaching so much that K barely recognizes his role as an educator anymore. V is a teenager who fell through the gaps after climate disasters. Access to technology in a changing world of values and norms makes her grow up fast, hopefully before it's too late.

Another short story. Based on the theme of climate change, and how little we are actually doing to stop it. Being featured in a study on climate change at Arizona State University.

Rio de Janeiro, 2952. In the rubble of a dead city, researchers find a domestic robot with fragmented memories of decades of collapse. Through its recordings, a disturbing truth emerges: the end didn't come all at once. It came slowly. Pill by pill. Wall by wall. Silence by silence. Between screens that replaced windows and flowers that grow where they shouldn't, a family disintegrates while the world crumbles. But the robot saw something the researchers don't yet understand-something about the drug called "flower," about the walls that became communities, about the day when everyone stopped recognizing each other. Some memories shouldn't be recovered.