Five SF Works About Climate Change Published Before the 1980s

[james_davis_nicoll]

Five SF Works About Climate Change Published Before the 1980s

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[ba_munronoe]

Aldiss's "Hot House" certainly has seen warming, although the humans of that time had bigger worries than temperature or even the humidity.

"The usual warning about translations of Verne’s work applies."

Speaking of which, can anyone suggest a good translation of 20,000 Leagues? My copy is in sad shape and I was thinking of getting a replacement.

[kallah]

I'm fond of the Frederick Paul Walter translations. He does tend to use a little more modern-ish slang, if that's something that throws you off.

[ba_munronoe]

As long as it's not too blatantly out of place. I'll take a look, thanks.

Re: Five SF Works About Climate Change Published Before the 1980s

[disassembly_rsn]

Possibly Hiero's Journey (1973), but that isn't really *about* climate change, just includes Canada having warmed up a lot post-Death.

The Chrysalids (1955) includes climate change - Labrador's climate is a lot warmer after Tribulation than before - but again it isn't really *about* it.

Zarathustra is affected by climate change in Little Fuzzy (1962), but that's not global warming. The Big Blackwater drainage project - draining half a million acres of swamp - changed the rainfall patterns of north Beta continent, which triggered the events of the story. The drought caused the land-prawn population boom and the Fuzzy migration southward. (The head of the company's scientific research division tried to suppress the findings and deny he'd been told what would happen, as I recall.)

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