Editorial collection
Climate · habitat · shared survival
A Planet Is a Relationship
Worlds where survival depends on feedback among people, institutions, resources, infrastructure, and living systems—and where no technical fix can avoid the question of who belongs.
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Each novel approaches this collection's central pressure from a different world, scale, and scientific angle.
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Novel guide
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Lauren Olamina knows the walls around her neighborhood cannot hold forever, so she prepares to survive a collapse the adults around her refuse to imagine.
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Novel guide
Children of Time
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last human ark reaches a terraformed refuge and discovers that another civilization has inherited it across thousands of years.
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Dune
Dune
Frank Herbert
Paul Atreides arrives on a desert world knowing his family has entered a trap—and discovers that surviving it may turn him into the future he fears.
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Novel guide
The Martian
The Martian
Andy Weir
Left for dead on Mars, Mark Watney must turn a short-stay habitat into a system that can keep him alive long enough for distant humans to reach him.
One question. Several universes willing to answer it differently.
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