Hello, fellow voyagers🖖!
Welcome to Story Voyager, a newsletter that inspires action through fiction. Find cli-fi and sci-fi stories on climate change, transhumanism and our evolving relationship with nature and technology. Stories can change the future.
‘Haunting, compelling ideas and beautiful writing.’
— Stephen P. Williams, Everlands
What you get as a subscriber
Story series - Serialized fiction. Currently writing There Is Hope, a cli-fi series
Cli-fi shorts - Climate fiction short stories
Publishing frequency: Whenever I have a new piece of fiction or a new serial episode ready to share.
A Substack Featured Publication in 2023
A Lunar Award sci-fi winner for Illegal
A Feedspot Top 15 Cli-Fi Blogs in 2023, 2024 & 2025
Stories to get you started
A sample of climate fiction stories set in the same secondary world.
Initiation sci-fi, biopunk, coming of age
Smuggler cli-fi, dystopian, child protagonist
Human Island cli-fi, dystopian, strong female lead
The Seed Grower cli-fi, biopunk, upmarket
The Dust Pirates cli-fi, post-apocalyptic, tween protagonist
Here you can find an index of everything I’ve written so far. Happy reading 📖!
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
Interviews
Cli-fi conversations with Claudia Befu by Shoni, Interested In Things
8 Questions for... Claudia Befu by Eleanor Anstruther, The Literary Obsessive
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.
