A New Faith <genre: hopeful climate fiction>

Sequoia, a city of climate refugees, has to decide whether to thrive in a future built from scratch or to barely survive because it cannot let go of its past.

TinJar

D. M. Kannapan has a new YA fantasy cli-fi book out: Fire’s Ally.

For most of her life, Eleg has been obsessed with the eerie, persistent, wildfire claiming parts of her home. No amount of rain seems to be able to put it out.

She belongs to a gentle, bookish society, and her people have been fighting the fire back for decades...

https://www.queerscifi.com/new-release-fires-ally-d-m-kannapan/

#Fantasy #LGBTQBookstodon @lgbtqbookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #NewRelease #Announcement #CliFi #YoungAdult

open.substack.com/pub/dralicee... 1/ A few negative characters in "A New Faith" are Muslim men and I was asked whether this was some form of bias on my part. It wasn't. #booksky #books #book #hopepunk #solarpunk #climate #detective #mystery #thriller #novel #fiction #migration #clifi #scifi

The Global Islamic Revival - K...
The Global Islamic Revival - Key Graphs

The Global Islamic Revival represents one of the most significant sociopolitical transformations of the past half-century. Muslims increasingly came to disavow secular or syncretic customs, instead studying scripture, abiding by the Quran, maintaining gender segregation and condemning deviation.

The Great Gender Divergence

Breezing through the otherwise quite thoughtful bit of small-scale climate prophecy by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, I'm struck by (and not sure how to get past) the casual way Africa and Australia are totally destroyed in this brief mention on the last page of the imagined history.

#SciComm #CliFi #antiblackness

A Korean team converted CO2 directly into gasoline at pilot scale.

Circular chemistry or lifeline for the fossil economy?

#PostScarcity #CliFi #SyntheticFuels
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-gasoline-kilograms-day.html

Direct CO₂-to-gasoline process reaches 50 kilograms per day in pilot plant

A Korean research team has successfully developed a technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO₂) into liquid hydrocarbons such as gasoline and naphtha, achieving pilot-scale production of 50 kg per day.

Tech Xplore

The Gulf of Maine has warmed 4°F since 1982. Maine lobsters are now developing shell disease at record rates in the warmer water. The ocean is doing the pre-cooking.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042026/maine-lobsters-warming-waters/

#EcologicalCollapse #CliFi

Warming Waters in the Gulf of Maine May Affect the Future of Lobsters - Inside Climate News

Researchers studying the crustacean’s early life cycles find clues that can help the fishery that depends on them plan for a warmer future.

Inside Climate News
Finished reading Samuel Fisher's "Migraine."
https://amzn.to/3QW9eQQ
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Well, that was bleak. In a good way, yes. But still: bleak.
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Stelliform authors are reading & loving T. K. Rex's THE WILDCRAFT DRONES! We've started to ship books out to folks who pre-ordered today. If you haven't put your order in there is still time to get your order in and receive it before the May 21 pub date! Get it from us or your fave indie bookstore!

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Started reading Samuel Fisher's "Migraine."
https://amzn.to/3QW9eQQ
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In which a deadly multi-year snowpocalypse ends...only to give almost everyone migraines. So, a warm and fuzzy read then...
#books #reading #SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #CliFi

I just did an author interview with the magnificent Introverted Indies!
They asked me about my writing process and I answered in some detail.

If you’re curious how I turn handwritten notes into Amazon-bestselling solarpunk novels, read the interview here:

https://lucyamclarenauthor.co.uk/2026/04/29/introverted-indies-interview-fay-abernethy/

Introverted Indies:
https://www.youtube.com/@IntrovertedIndies
instagram.com/introvertedindies

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