"Our heroes are survivors of a global plague. Written in the 1940s this is an incredible vision of how the infrastructure of modern life would be reclaimed by nature if civilisation suddenly stopped."
"In a remote monastery a religious order preserves secrets of modern science, whilst outside barbarism reigns over a nuclear wasteland. A religious viewpoint shows hope & charity as vital for survival"
"Perhaps the best known of J. G. Ballard's trilogy of climate change disaster scenarios. This pioneer of the new wave provides a vivid scenario of a future that is fast becoming science fact."
"Following a tradition of left-leaning politics in biologically literate sci-fi, trained bio-chemist Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series starts with a cyberpunk political thriller set in 2040"
"Unlike Jules Verne, who defines the technologically optimistic view of the engineer, Wells was the first writer who understood the implications of Darwin and Pasteur. Ecology saves us from Martian war"
"Vonnegut shows how evolutionary progress means adaptation, and not necessarily a constant upward rise of progress. Economic collapse and increasing sterility provide the downfall of modern humanity."
"Cop thriller set in a world where unsustainability and over-population are really starting to bite. Badly adapted as the film Soylent Green, the original sees no cannibal food supply just social decay"
"The dispossessed are not possessed or owned. A scientist from an eco-conscious anarco-socialist society is protagonist for a narrative comparing the cold war dichotomy between capitalism and communism"
"Arguably the most insightful story of Enlightenment values at the birth of the Age of Science. Victor Frankenstein's inventive genius is blind to consequences, and when he sees, he recoils in horror"
"The second of Macleod's series offers a before and after of the future of the world we are in today, and the transition to an environmentally sustainable one. A return to space shows progress prevail."
