Hello, fellow voyagers🖖
Welcome to Story Voyager, a fiction newsletter that explores our climate future through intelligent, thought-provoking sci-fi. Join me, Claudia Befu, a prize-winning writer, as we navigate the complex narratives of climate change and its impact on humanity.
‘Haunting, compelling ideas and beautiful writing.’
— Stephen P. Williams, Everlands
Why join our community?
Our mission is to travel through imagination, uncovering the intricate relationships between storytelling and the pressing issues of our time. Each month, subscribers can expect:
Original Fiction: Enjoy three new pieces of climate fiction, including serialized stories and short narratives set in an immersive secondary world.
Insightful Essays: One essay each month offers fresh perspectives on climate themes and their relevance to our future.
Interactive Book Club: Participate in our seasonal book club, where we read and discuss a climate fiction book together through monthly essays, weekly chats, and live video calls.
Curated Resources: Receive an annual curated reading list of top fiction and nonfiction exploring climate, sustainability, and nature.
As a paid subscriber, you become the patron of Story Voyager and receive There Is Hope, my upcoming cli-fi eBook, delivered upon release.
Join over 2,200 readers on this journey as we explore the fascinating intersections of climate and storytelling.
A Substack Featured Publication in 2023
A Lunar Award sci-fi winner for Illegal
A Feedspot Top 15 Cli-Fi Blogs in 2023 & 2024
Stories to get you started
A sample of climate fiction stories set in the same secondary world.
Initiation: Changes sci-fi, biopunk, coming of age
Smuggler cli-fi, dystopian, child protagonist
Human Island: A documentary cli-fi, dystopian, strong female lead
The Seed Grower: The delivery cli-fi, biopunk, upmarket
The Dust Pirates: Trapper cli-fi, post-apocalyptic, tween protagonist
Here’s what readers say:
‘Claudia writes philosophical cli-fi stories and I just all around love how she thinks.’ — Elle Griffin, The Elysian
‘An intelligent, almost spiritual, treatment of the nascent climate fiction subgenre.’ — Johnathan Reid, ReidItWrite
‘Good stories here that are contrary to the ordinary. They will change your mind.’ — Henry Mitchell, Dovers Gap
‘Creative, fun, thought provoking.’ — Alexander Semenyuk, Lighthouse
‘I grew up reading science fiction, Claudia’s work is the first fiction on Substack that has seriously attracted me.’ — Michael Spencer, AI Supremacy
‘Haunting, compelling ideas and beautiful writing.’ — Stephen P. Williams of Everlands
‘There is scarcely any better sci-fi on Substack.’ — Andrei Atanasov of Attempts To Tell The Truth
About me
I’m a prize-winning poet, fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, holding degrees in Transcultural Communication and Screenwriting. Currently, I work as a product manager in the renewable energy sector, where my passion for storytelling meets my commitment to a sustainable future. In my free time, I write fiction, practice tea ceremony, and learn foreign languages—I speak six and have recently begun studying Japanese. I live in Vienna, Austria, with my husband. Born at 340 ppm.
Some chats with lovely fellow writers:
Cli-fi conversations with Claudia Befu by Shoni, Interested In Things
8 Questions for... Claudia Befu by Eleanor Anstruther, The Literary Obsessive
Made with Human Intelligence
🤲All the fiction published here is powered by human creativity—no AI technology has been used at any stage of the writing process. 🤖The images illustrating the stories are AI generated.
