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Cli-Fi: Audiobooks

Dive into the eye-opening world of Climate Fiction, a genre of fiction based upon human's impact on the environment.

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  • Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022[New York] : HarperAudio, [2022] — e-audio
  • In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they've been…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[Canada] : Random House Canada, 2023. — e-audio
  • America, 2049: Summer temperatures are intolerably high, the fossil fuel industry has shut down, and humans are implanted with a 'Flick' at birth, which allows them to remain perpetually online. The top echelons of society live in Floating Cities…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[New York] : Knopf Canada, 2023. — e-audio
  • A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2019New York : Penguin Audio, 2019. — e-audio
  • A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2019[New York, NY] : HarperAudio, 2019. — e-audio
  • To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea.…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023Leicester : Ulverscroft, 2023. — e-audio
  • One man -- visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D. -- has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021New York : HarperAudio, 2021. — e-audio
  • In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021Old Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2021. — e-audio
  • The Nebula Award–winning author of Kindred presents a "gripping" dystopian novel about a woman fleeing Los Angeles as America spirals into chaos ( The New York Times Book Review ). "A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, The Wall Street Journal…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2016. — e-audio
  • In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2017. — e-audio
  • With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018Toronto : ECW Press, 2018. — e-audio
  • Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — e-audio
  • In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021Toronto : ECW Press, 2021. — e-audio
  • From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020[Ashland, Oregon] : Hachette Book Group, 2020. — e-audio
  • Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020[New York] : Macmillan Audio, 2020. — e-audio
  • Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017New York : Random House Audio, 2017. — e-audio
  • Software manager Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. Alongside the key is a list of five other animals. The list is signed, "Love, Silvina." Jane does not know a…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2021Ashland : Blackstone Publishing, 2021. — e-audio
  • Once there was a world's end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016[New York] : Listening Library (Audio), 2016. — e-audio
  • After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod…
    Downloadable Audiobook, e-audio
  • In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population-- and it is their marrow that…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2018[Toronto] : Kobo Originals, 2018. — e-audio