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Imagine 2200 is Grist’s climate fiction initiative, engaging writers across the globe in envisioning the next 180 years of climate progress. Whether built on abundance or adaptation, reform or a new understanding of survival, these stories serve as a springboard for exploring how fiction can help us build toward a better reality. Learn more about Imagine →
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Latest climate fiction stories
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![Illustration with vibrant colors depicting images of a human, a Greenland shark, a doe, and an eagle, connected by water]()
The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark
The last four creatures on Earth make an amazing discovery as the oldest of them finally returns home.
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![Illustration of a woman sitting in a canoe amid water and vegetation]()
![Illustration of a woman sitting in a canoe amid water and vegetation]()
El, the Plastotrophs, and Me
During a journey upriver, a young couple comes to terms with receiving a priceless gift, only to have it suddenly taken away.
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![Conceptual illustration of a figure on her knees in a vertical farm. Another figure floats above her head.]()
![Conceptual illustration of a figure on her knees in a vertical farm. Another figure floats above her head.]()
When It’s Time to Harvest
An elderly couple struggles to let go of their successful farm — and the only way of life they’ve known — before it’s too late.
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A Worm to the Wise
When an aspiring journalist goes digging for a scandal, she finds a community — and a calling.
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Imagine 2200: The 2021 collection
Immerse yourself in 12 hope-filled stories of abundance, adaptation, and progress.
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The Case of the Turned Tide
Two detectives face an ethical dilemma as they solve a mystery for a corporate client with the power to improve the lives of millions.
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![Illustration: A young girl kneels on the ground cupping her hands. From her palms emerges hazy white images of a sea turtle, a whale, and a sea bird]()
![Illustration: A young girl kneels on the ground cupping her hands. From her palms emerges hazy white images of a sea turtle, a whale, and a sea bird]()
A Séance in the Anthropocene
Long after the age of fossil fuels has drawn to a close, a Cherokee teenager attending an elite tribal school puts the last ghosts of coal and oil to rest.
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![Illustration of two futuristic people looking at the night sky as a spaceship lifts off through the clouds]()
![Illustration of two futuristic people looking at the night sky as a spaceship lifts off through the clouds]()
Afterglow
As the wealthy flee Earth, a young woman must decide whether to follow her partner to a new world or stay behind to save a dying planet.
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Canvas – Wax – Moon
With laughter, love, and the help of an old witch, a family provides unconditional support to its witching-hour baby when they need it most.
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![Illustration of a woman-coral hybrid emerging from the ocean]()
Broken From the Colony
Trans girls find acceptance and security among the coral as sole survivors of a storm that submerges their Caribbean island.
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The Cloud Weaver’s Song
In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.
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![Illustration of a woman walking among spirits in a forest cemetery]()
The Tree in the Back Yard
A woman with a gift for communing with spirits struggles to hear her own father in a forest of the dead.
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How Imagine 2200 came to life
A group exercise to envision a clean, just future became a climate-fiction contest to create stories of life in that future.
