Metamorphosis // Climate Fiction for a Better Future

A visionary anthology of climate fiction from Grist. For many of us, the thought of our planet centuries in the future signals a volatile dystopia: our world devastated by climate change, our people bitter and broken. But this shining anthology presents an alternative future. These twelve winning selections from Grist's Imagine 2200 short story contest shirk the fear and mourning that often mark speculative climate fiction, daring instead to dream of humanity's varied communities meeting planetary challenges in fascinating and novel ways.Imagine 2200 was founded to counter the dominance of the dystopian in futurist writings, and to "amplify voices that have been, and continue to be, affected by systems of oppression." Metamorphosis beautifully elucidates those themes, featuring a wide array of progressive thought--Afro-, Asian, Indigenous, Latinx, disabled, feminist, and queer futurisms, hopepunk, solarpunk, and more. In "To Labor for the Hive," a beekeeper finds purpose and new love a