Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
In This Series
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![An illustration shows a bus in the pouring rain, lit by a comforting yellow glow. A person is getting on with a broken bicycle.]()
![An illustration shows a bus in the pouring rain, lit by a comforting yellow glow. A person is getting on with a broken bicycle.]()
It Takes a Full Bus
What happens when a hitchhiker stranded far from home meets a bus full of passengers who all have somewhere to be?
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![Illustration shows a typical gray office filled with colorful characters]()
![Illustration shows a typical gray office filled with colorful characters]()
Forty-Seven Vacant Floors of Ur
On the empty 47th floor, the third-to-last user experience writer in Silicon Valley makes a decision.
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![Illustration of a young man in a t-shirt and wool hat sitting on a rock overlooking a dirty, grey beach. He's distracted by a digital device, and digital projections of tropical palm trees appear over the dingy beach.]()
![Illustration of a young man in a t-shirt and wool hat sitting on a rock overlooking a dirty, grey beach. He's distracted by a digital device, and digital projections of tropical palm trees appear over the dingy beach.]()
Sandbag Squidward
On a cold, damp beach in Louisiana, Henry Block is counting down the days until his Conservation Corps work ends and he can get back to building his digital world.
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![Illustration of a boy in a classroom. He is reaching towards brightly-colored, fantastical birds that are flying around him.]()
![Illustration of a boy in a classroom. He is reaching towards brightly-colored, fantastical birds that are flying around him.]()
The Very Important Case of Rami and the Rainbow Bird
When Rami Saleh’s porcelain bird is broken, the schoolyard gets on the case in a caper about finding truth, belonging, and safety in a world on fire.
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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.
