Drowned Worlds, edited by Jonathan Strahan

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(SF Climate Change) This anthology contains fourteen original stories and one reprint set in drowned or inundated futures. (102,700 words; Time: 5h:42m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average

The Future is Blue, by Catherynne M. Valente

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(Post Apocalypse) Teenage Tetley lives in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now. (8,800 words; Time: 29m)

Rating: ★★★★☆ Recommended

Recommended By: RHorton:4 JStrahan

Drowned, by Lavie Tidhar

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(Post Apocalypse) Little Mai listens as her father tells the tale of Flora and Deuteronomy, who founded their settlement when the old world was ending. (6,100 words; Time: 20m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Last Gods, by Sam J. Miller

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★★★★☆ Recommended

(Climate Change) On the edge of the ruined land, village people worship Orcas as gods. Unbeliever Kelb is up to something, and Adze tries to help him because she loves him. (6,200 words; Time: 20m)

Recommended By: 📙NClarke+2 👍RSR+1 (Q&A)

Only Ten More Shopping Days Left Till Ragnarök, by James Morrow

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(Near-Future Fantasy) The narrator and his wife take a vacation to the North Pole, but after a tragic accident, they're enlisted in an effort to save the world. (~8,200 words)

Rating: 3, Unremarkable

 

Inselberg, by Nalo Hopkinson

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(Climate Change) A tour guide leads tourists through the remains of a flooded country. (2,500 words; Time: 08m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

The New Venusians, by Sean Williams

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(SF) Teenage Natasha gets sentenced to helping her somewhat-crazy grandpa in his lab high in the Venusian atmosphere. (9,100 words; Time: 30m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Destroyed by the Waters, by Rachel Swirsky

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(Climate Change) Derek and Zack visit the underwater ruins of New Orleans, where they'd honeymooned fifty years before. (6,200 words; Time: 20m)

Rating: ★★★★★, Award-Worthy

What Is, by Jeffrey Ford

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(Apocalyptic) In 2025, the last survivors in drought-ravaged Oklahoma receive their last airdrop from the government.  (~6,200 words)

Rating: 2, Not Recommended

 

The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known, by Nina Allan

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(Post Apocalypse) The narrator wants to be a scientist and help restore the Earth, like her uncle, but she'd also like to understand what happened to her uncle. (8,700 words; Time: 29m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Because Change was the Ocean and We lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(Post-Apocalypse) Pris abandons 22nd-Century Fairbanks and moves to a commune that floats above the ruins of San Francisco. (6,400 words; Time: 21m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5

Who Do You Love?, by Kathleen Ann Goonan

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(Apocalyptic SF) Zoe is covered with growths of coral from an experiment when she and Emile were young. Now he's back and still wants to change the world. (~10,100 words)

Rating: 2, Not Recommended

 

Brownsville Station, by Christopher Rowe

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(SF) A Junior Conductor has to deal with a serious problem on the high-speed train that traverses his giant, tubular, "city." A problem that seems to just keep getting worse. (10,500 words; Time: 35m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, by Ken Liu

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(Post Apocalypse) Around 2650 AD, the narrator interviews a wealthy recluse who lives above the sunken ruins of Boston. (6,600 words; Time: 22m)

Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Not Recommended

Recommended By: GDozois:5 NClarke

Elves of Antarctica, by Paul McAuley

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(Near-Future SF) A refugee from a drowned island nation works on the Antarctic peninsula, where he studies mysterious stones with elven runes in his spare time. (7,100 words; Time: 23m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5 JStrahan