Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis

Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis

Can fiction make us more optimistic about tackling Earth’s environmental emergency? These eco-focused books have hope at their core‘Can literature be a tool to encourage something better – creating eco-topia on the page, so it might be imagined off it?” asks the novelist Sarah Hall in this weekend’s Guardian magazine. Climate fiction – or “cli-fi” – continues to grow as a genre in its own right; the first Climate fiction prize was awarded this y…