Welcome to Story Voyager, your climate fiction newsletter!
Hi, I’m Claudia 👋, the author of Story Voyager, an 'intelligent, almost spiritual' climate fiction newsletter for all sci-fi and climate-interested readers. Find gripping dystopian yet hopeful short stories and cli-fi series with charismatic female protagonists and a diverse cast that aim to change the narrative about the future of humankind.
Good stories here that are contrary to the ordinary. They will change your mind.
— Henry Mitchell of Dovers Gap
Story Voyager has been a Substack featured publication, a Lunar Awards winner for science fiction, and appears on Feedspot’s top 15 cli-fi blogs. Join a vibrant sci-fi community of over 2,000 readers.
An intelligent, almost spiritual, treatment of the nascent climate fiction subgenre.
— Johnathan Reid of ReidItWrite
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I grew up reading science fiction, Claudia’s work is the first fiction on Substack that has seriously attracted me. I'm hoping to read more conceptualizations of a future where AI and environmental conditions play significant roles with charismatic characters.
— Michael Spencer of AI Supremacy
Free subscribers get
Climate fiction short stories (monthly)
Cli-fi book reviews & recs. (monthly)
Exclusive cli-fi story series (seasonal)
Curated cli-fi reading lists (annual)
A pop-up book club*
*The pop-up book club is a special event in which we read and discuss a book together. Last year we read Dune by Frank Herbert. This year we’ll read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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There Is Hope as an eBook (in 2025)
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*For only $5/month or $30/year, you can become a patron of imagination and support this fiction project. The funds will go toward publishing my first book, There Is Hope.
Creative, fun, thought provoking.
— Alexander Semenyuk of Lighthouse
Where should I start?
Start your journey here for an overview of everything I’ve written so far. Or dive in with my top three cli-fi stories:
Illegal* - Cli-fi, biopunk, thriller
*This story won the Lunar Award 🥇 for science fiction
Human Island - Cli-fi, dystopian, strong female lead
The Seed Grower - Cli-fi, biopunk, upmarket
Are you looking for a good book to read? Take your pick from my curated bookshelf:
Haunting, compelling ideas and beautiful writing.
— Stephen P. Williams of Everlands
About me
I’m an award winning poet, fiction writer and screenwriter with an MA Writing for Script & Screen from the Falmouth University in the UK. Currently, I work as a product manager in a climate tech start-up in the renewable energy sector. In my free time, I write fiction and practice tea ceremony. I live with my husband in Vienna, Austria.
Interviews
All the fiction on Story Voyager is 100% human written from concept to outline to finished story. No AI was involved at any stage of the creation process!
Thanks for reading and I hope to meet you soon in the comments section!
—Claudia
