Clifi Stories

The year is 2132. Jay struggles to survive alongside his family and his two friends, Kylian and Riley, on one of the world's last habitable plains. Suffocating heat. Sandstorms. Famine. All that remains on Earth are the remnants of vanished civilizations. When an armed group attacks their village, Jay does the unthinkable. Hunted, his family flees toward the Great Desert, said to be impossible to cross. Their only hope lies thousands of miles to the north: a refuge that may not even exist, sheltering those who survived the Fall. Their journey plunges them into the heart of a conflict far beyond their understanding. Each of them must choose their own path, find their place in a world reduced to ruins, and decide what role they will play in the future of humanity.

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · 28x FEATURED · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | PUBLISH DATE: 25 Nov 2026 | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find her human soulmate and forge a better future for her people. *** Calliathron is the epitome of modern sea life--a bustling mer-city contained within a coral atoll in an alternate Indian Ocean. Yet, the ripples of a changing world beyond have begun to seep in, bleaching color and darkening minds--but not Dea Rhodoreef's mind. Who said life's easy for a teen about to graduate high school? Even more so when one is a pastel goth gamer mermaid trying to scrape by in a mobile home with a grumpy grandmother who's always complaining about the "human infestation". Maybe the troubled city-state will embrace a new dawn when merpeople and humans coexist--a future that Dea is determined to work hard for. Noble causes aside, just getting to see a notorious human is number one on her bucket list. Now, as if school, a part-time job and building a political career aren't enough, a chonky sea cow has been following her for days. It's time to return him to the wild--not like she'd swim into a human. Right? © 2022 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Anime @ScienceFiction + 26 more WC: 105,000 Genres: Sci-Fi (Oceanpunk) x Cli-Fi x Adventure x Romance x Retelling This tale comes with mammalian mermaids who breathe air. Strap in for a roller-coaster ride of adventure, fun twists, feels, kawaii, exotic biomes, sci-fi battle, realistic tech and slowburn romance! Might bring to mind the Netflix movie Okja!

TWO DEAD CLIMATOLOGISTS When eminent climatologist Dr Dale Stanton - in the process of studying the Atlantic Ocean's Thermohaline Circulation - is found dead in his London apartment, environmental lawyer Robert Spire is given the task to administer a large legacy left to global warming organisations. The job should have been straightforward, until a second climatologist, Dr Jack Bannister drops dead on the other side of the Atlantic. AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY Spire's client - suspicious of her son's death - asks him to travel to San Francisco to investigate Dr Jack Bannister's death. Whilst there, he meets French Climatologist Professor Francois Trimaud who is working on a geoengineering project to seed the Arctic Ocean with an experimental substance - the aim, to prevent, or at least slow the Arctic's melting ice. Spire soon discovers that someone has other plans for the region and wants the climatologists dead at all costs. A LOOMING ECOLOGICAL DISASTER As evidence of increased glacial melt in Greenland and reduction in the Arctic ice mounts, Spire becomes determined to join Trimaud on the research vessel, Mercure Blanc on a joint US/French expedition to the Arctic. He soon finds however, that the lives of all on board are in peril as he discovers a plan that threatens to push the Arctic to its tipping point and the Earth to disaster...

A lover's explanation of her choice

At a time when climate change has wrought transformations in south India's Kaveri river basin, a negotiator for a small town travels to Bengaluru to make a trade deal. During his trip, he meets a range of people with diverse vested interests, all fighting to get their share of available resources.

Maya Reeves's research is dismissed as pseudoscience. Her mentor is no longer around. Her career is hanging by a thread.But deep in the Amazon rainforest, she's found something impossible: huge, ancient trees that seem to communicate with each other and warn each other about future events. Mateo Oliveira holds seven generations of indigenous knowledge about the forest's secrets. He's also the last person Maya expected to have as a research partner. Together, they'll prove that the forest thinks, communicates, and remembers-if they can survive long enough to document it. A slow-burn romance between two scientists discovering that some patterns are worth following, even when they lead somewhere unexpected.

A CliFi short story. Imagine a place where there is a searing thousand mile desert that runs to a sea... ...a sea that one hundred miles off shore is so cold you die within a minute if you fall in. Five hundred miles to the south of the sea is a frozen landscape in perpetual winter... ... a place that is always snowed on and that frequently calves monster icebergs. Hardly anywhere on land is safe; little life survives. The last refuge of mankind are the Stilt Cities, floating in the middle of the ocean. To the north are the Desert Domes: the last farms, protecting plants from the intense heat and sand. To the south the Ice Quarries: the last supply of fresh, cooling water. A current system moves strongly along the divide of heat and cold, but rarely over it. You, however, move across it like a metronome... tick... tick... tick... ...and as the prison ship Destiny plies the waves, a secretive cult have a strange request of the Captain.

It began with the ocean. It was our fault, but nobody cared until it was too late. - #PlanetOrPlastic 500 word short story contest entry with @NationalGeographic cover & story description by me

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.

This is not a dystopia. This is not a wasted landscape, a place without hope. This is not the land of Bradbury, Lowry, Collins, Orwell, or Roth. This is not a dystopia. But there are some who would disagree. **** Fifty years after the Third World War and its catastrophic impact on the environment and its inhabitants, societies are just beginning to remember how to do anything but survive. But as attention shifts from bare survival to quality of life, it is clear that not all visions for society are the same--and there are some who would risk a new era of conflict to make their vision a reality. It is in this society teetering between disasters that four young adults find themselves with more power--and in more danger--than they ever expected. Ophelia is a high-ranking government employee, fiercely committed to her vision of the future and harboring a terrifying secret. Derek is the leader of a growing revolution, intent on changing the society he hates--through whatever means possible. Caden is a young, rising soldier caught in a dangerous dance between loyalty and honesty. Indie is a farmer, struggling with mental illness and swept into a conflict that threatens to destroy her home and her future, even as she holds a key to the past that could change it all. Told from four perspectives, Collective explores the politics of idealism, the meaning of freedom, and the choice to define ourselves in the face of an always changing world.

The year is 2562 AD - the Second Hijri Millennium. Terraforming the New Nile on al-Qahirah (the Sultanate of Mars) has not gone according to plan... (Image prompted by Shaykh Musa Furber using Midjourney AI.)

BINARIUS, A TALE OF VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR, AND THOSE WHO INEVITABLY -- ARE BOTH. Somewhere beneath, within, outside the timelines of the cosmos, a planet has been tactically infected with poison. For this reason, Firinne lives with constant anxiety. She remembers a time when she was normal; before The Blacken came. Seemingly overnight, she is faced with betrayal, forcing her to abandon Citrine. What she finds is a world gone mad. Hunted by her betrayer and packs of mechanical creatures - she finds a ruin that lights up the sky, and an electric orphan who hides in the shadows. Together, they discover a prophecy that could ensure the survival of their planet - if they can manage to stay alive. The end of The Blacken might be near, but sometimes endings are disguised as new beginnings -- and some endings last forever.

When it's sunny, Sam Edwards has extraordinary strength. After dark, he struggles to stay awake. It's the year 2032 and, thanks to students pressuring adults, Earth's climate is stable. Sam wants to believe he's a regular teen activist, but when carbon-breathing galactic invaders trigger a dramatic warming event, they come to kill him. Thrust from suburbia into a voyage of deadly adventures, Sam escapes with a modern-day pirate. A corporate army and an alien warrior and pursue him. An island princess and a pod of loyal dolphins join his quest. Sam must follow his heart to discover his heritage and save Earth's climate from becoming a fiery victim of galactic warring aliens. New chapters added every Sunday

Book Five

Woodpecker says the end of the world is coming, there's a dead body on a bed, an empty field in Somerset is somehow connected to a secret government project, and Samantha Brock is the only one that can discover the truth of what is happening and stop it, but then that isn't really the point. In the days following the death of her mother, Samantha (Sam) Brock goes walking in the woods. She is visited by a woodpecker who, speaking in her mother's voice, prophesises the end of the world. She tells Sam that she must discover the truth behind what is happening and prevent it. The impending "death of everything" acts as a backdrop to the personal grief experienced by the central character, and the three minor characters of the novel. Each is mourning in their own way, and each is unknowingly important to unlocking the secret of what is causing the sky to turn green and snow to fall in June. Ben Erwin is Sam's recently ex-husband and a journalist chasing a story about a mysterious government project, Stuart Levitsky is a prime number obsessed mathematics prodigy, and DCI John Geering is a detective investigating the discovery of a dead body in a forensically clean flat in London. With the help of Woodpecker, who appears several times to deliver important information to Sam, their stories cross and finally collide. As the emerald-coloured apocalypse approaches they are catapulted towards a dramatic ending with equally dramatic conclusions. I hope you like the story and find time to vote and comment - love hearing your thoughts.