 | Earth Abides (S.F. Masterworks) by George.R. Stewart
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £5.00 Our heroes are survivors of a global plague. Written in the 1940s this is an incredible vision of how the infrastructure of modern life would be reclaimed by nature if civilisation suddenly stopped.
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 | A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Buy used from: £4.83 In a remote monastery a religious order preserves secrets of modern science, whilst outside barbarism reigns over a nuclear wasteland. A religious viewpoint shows hope & charity as vital for survival
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 | The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Buy used from: £15.06 One of Brunner's three visionary masterpieces, this one looks at a world overwhelmed by industrial pollution
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 | The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.52 Perhaps the best known of J. G. Ballard's trilogy of climate change disaster scenarios. This pioneer of the new wave provides a vivid scenario of a future that is fast becoming science fact.
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 | The Star Fraction: A Fall Revolution Novel by Ken MacLeod
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Following a tradition of left-leaning politics in biologically literate sci-fi, trained bio-chemist Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series starts with a cyberpunk political thriller set in 2040
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 | The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Buy used from: £0.01 Unlike Jules Verne, who defines the technologically optimistic view of the engineer, Wells was the first writer who understood the implications of Darwin and Pasteur. Ecology saves us from Martian war
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 | Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy used from: £0.49 Vonnegut shows how evolutionary progress means adaptation, and not necessarily a constant upward rise of progress. Economic collapse and increasing sterility provide the downfall of modern humanity.
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 | Make Room Make Room by Harry Harrison
Cop thriller set in a world where unsustainability and over-population are really starting to bite. Badly adapted as the film Soylent Green, the original sees no cannibal food supply just social decay
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 | The Dispossessed (Gollancz S.F.) by Ursula Le Guin
Buy used from: £1.00 The dispossessed are not possessed or owned. A scientist from an eco-conscious anarco-socialist society is protagonist for a narrative comparing the cold war dichotomy between capitalism and communism
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 | Frankenstein: Or "The Modern Prometheus" - The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy used from: £0.05 Arguably the most insightful story of Enlightenment values at the birth of the Age of Science. Victor Frankenstein's inventive genius is blind to consequences, and when he sees, he recoils in horror
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 | The Sky Road: A Fall Revolution Novel by Ken MacLeod
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The second of Macleod's series offers a before and after of the future of the world we are in today, and the transition to an environmentally sustainable one. A return to space shows progress prevail.
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