Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
In This Series
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![Stylized illustration depicts a silhouette wearing headphones with sound waves radiating around. Below their feet is a bright world of mushrooms and fungi.]()
![Stylized illustration depicts a silhouette wearing headphones with sound waves radiating around. Below their feet is a bright world of mushrooms and fungi.]()
The Case of the Missing Lake
Lake Ballona goes missing, and only the mushrooms can help.
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![Abstract illustration of a woman with water swirling around her]()
![Abstract illustration of a woman with water swirling around her]()
Imagine 2200 at Climate Week NYC 2025
Dive into the climate fiction short stories you've seen at our Climate Week NYC events.
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![Illustration portrays two young women riding on a motorcycle through a field of flowers]()
![Illustration portrays two young women riding on a motorcycle through a field of flowers]()
The Sunflower Covenant
When Dee is transferred to the swanky Wicker school, their education in conformity is quickly derailed by another misfit willing to fight for a different world.
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![Illustration shows a group of young people sitting on the ground of a lush greenhouse filled with fruit trees, listening to a man standing in the center.]()
![Illustration shows a group of young people sitting on the ground of a lush greenhouse filled with fruit trees, listening to a man standing in the center.]()
The Hunger and the Hunger
“Visitor, what is hunger?” A former guerilla fighter struggles to explain his past when he finds himself in a land without poverty or want.
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![Illustration shows a man standing in an overgrown river delta, wearing an orange backpack, locs blowing in the wind. He is looking at a public telephone box standing alone among the undergrowth.]()
![Illustration shows a man standing in an overgrown river delta, wearing an orange backpack, locs blowing in the wind. He is looking at a public telephone box standing alone among the undergrowth.]()
The Seed Dropper
Decades after flooding drove his family from their Louisiana home, June returns to replant the land, and grapple with its legacy.
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![Dreamy illustration of green crop fields overlayed with two cloudy figures in an embrace]()
![Dreamy illustration of green crop fields overlayed with two cloudy figures in an embrace]()
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
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![Illustration shows a man with his arm around the waist of a humanoid android. They stand on a balcony looking out over a city skyline.]()
![Illustration shows a man with his arm around the waist of a humanoid android. They stand on a balcony looking out over a city skyline.]()
Last Tuesday, for Eternity
What happens when an android making good on a pledge to return to the earth suddenly falls in love?
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![Illustration of an elderly woman sitting on a mechanical dugong in the water. She wears elaborate armor and holds a spear, waiting to attack a large trawler ship.]()
![Illustration of an elderly woman sitting on a mechanical dugong in the water. She wears elaborate armor and holds a spear, waiting to attack a large trawler ship.]()
Mousedeer Versus the Ghost Ships
When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.
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![Illustration showing a person's hands doing a needlepoint of a pod of whales. The whales seem to be swimming off the surface of the needlepoint.]()
![Illustration showing a person's hands doing a needlepoint of a pod of whales. The whales seem to be swimming off the surface of the needlepoint.]()
A Eulogy for Each and Every End
An apprentice undertaker learns the art of death and dying.
