Inspiring action through fiction

Stories can change the future.

Hello, fellow voyagers🖖

Welcome to Story Voyager, a newsletter that inspires action through fiction. Find cli-fi and speculative 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

How to navigate this publication👇

• Story series - Serialized fiction. Currently writing There Is Hope, a cli-fi series

• Cli-fi shorts - Climate fiction short stories

• Future thinking - Deep dives into possible futures through essays, worldbuilding, and reading

• Head to the About section for more details about the offer and the author

Subscribers can expect one piece of fiction or an essay per week.

Below you can find an index of everything I’ve written so far. Happy reading 📖!

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Story series

Serialized fiction. Currently writing There Is Hope, a cli-fi series.

• The current season is always free to read.

• 🔒Episodes go behind a paywall at the end of each season.

The Dust Road universe

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

• 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

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Cli-fi shorts

Climate fiction short stories.

The Dust Road universe

These short stories are placed in my secondary-world dubbed the Dust Road by readers and offer you a quick entry point into the universe.

Limited series

Initiation is a four-part, coming-of-age biopunk sci-fi limited series.

• S1E1: Changes - A young girl learns the date of her initiation.

• S1E2: Rebel - A young girl rebels against her mother.

• S1E3: Hunger - A young girl cannot still her hunger.

• S1E4: Mindbinding - A young girl is initiated into the ancient practice of mindbinding

Short fiction

• 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.

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

Stand alone fiction

This fiction is not part of the Dust Road universe.

Limited series

Dracula as a climate warrior: The stakes have never been higher.

• S1E1: What if Vlad the Impaler ran The Ministry for the Future?

• S1E2: Geoengineering by impaling - Coming up soon

Short fiction

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

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Future thinking

This is the non-fiction section of this newsletter where we deep dive into possible futures through essay, worldbuilding, and reading.

Writing prompts

• The Future of Nature - An invitation to imagine the future of the human-nature relationship for Earth Day 2025

Essays

• 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

• From TikTok to Substack: Should we welcome digital refugees?

• Beyond the attention economy, true power lies in access to individuals

Worldbuilding

🔒Only for paid subscribers.

• I wrote the coolest tree hugger in popular culture [FREE to read]

• The economy of controlling women

• Access to seeds will determine your social class in the future

• The Dust Pirates of Central Europe

• Kelp forests give hope to climate refugees

• A dystopian world as a prequel to a utopian world

Reading

• The Future by Naomi Alderman - currently reading with my subscribers

• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Waiting for the Great Turn?

  • Let's talk 'The Ministry for the Future'

  • What if Vlad the Impaler ran The Ministry for the Future?

• 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

• The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

• Parable Series by Octavia Butler

Reading lists

🔒Only for paid subscribers.

• A depressing reading list for a future worth living

• The fiction of climate change

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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