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An 'intelligent, almost spiritual' climate fiction newsletter

Welcome to Story Voyager!

Exploring our climate future through intelligent, thought-provoking science fiction—crafted for readers who seek depth and discovery in every story.

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• Below you’ll find an index of all the fiction you can read here.

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The Dust Road universe

Most of the fiction published on Story Voyager is placed in my secondary-world dubbed the Dust Road by readers.

Story series

• There Is Hope: A climate fiction series I started serialising in April 2023 - Ongoing

• Memories of Life and Death on the Dust Road: A Museum of Life exhibition - Coming up in 2025

Cli-fi shorts

• Illegal, a Lunar Award 🥇winner: A smuggled climate refugee must survive her first day in a high security city.

• Smuggler: They call us the zombie children.

• Ice: Two homeless siblings livestream their shenanigans for a living but when they decide to go on a dream vacation their lives take an unexpected turn.

• Ladybug: The memories you leave behind when your mind goes digital.

Worldbuilding

• A dystopian world as a prequel to a utopian world

• Kelp forests give hope to climate refugees

• The Dust Pirates of Central Europe

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Stand alone fiction

These stories are part of the extended Dust Road universe—they take place roughly 1000 years later.

• Initiation - A four-part, coming-of-age biopunk sci-fi mini-series.

  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

• Welcome to gulmohur - A young teacher at a school for gifted children is looking forward to getting her first student.

These stories are not part of the Dust Road universe.

• Sinking - One day it started to rain and it never stopped.

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Reviews & Recs

This is an emerging climate fiction book club.

Let’s read together

A seasonal cli-fi book club where we read a book together.

Ongoing

• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • A daily life project

Past readings

• Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Letters from Arrakis: In which we discuss the worldbuilding of Dune

  • Letters from Arrakis: In which we talk about the Fremen and their Arrakis

  • Letters from Arrakis: In which we discuss, well, Book Three

  • Letters from Arrakis: In which we discuss the Dune Part II film

Book reviews

• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

• Parable Series by Octavia Butler

Reading lists

For more climate & fiction reading, checkout my curated reading lists from 2023 and 2024. This is a perk for paid subscribers.

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Essays

Occasionally, I write essays on climate change, nature, society as related to my fiction stories.

• Corn, science fiction and the future of food

• Allow me to get rich and I will save the world

• The Great Dying and the Little Ice Age

• Climate change started thousands of years ago

• We won’t save the planet in the next 200 years

• The economy of controlling women

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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