Climate Change (1889)
Every major player in sci-fi has written a novel set in a climate-ravaged dystopia. So who was first? Well, the father of climate fiction is also the father of science fiction himself. Verne’s 1889 novel The Purchase of the North Pole imagines a world devoid of seasons as a result of climate change.
But unlike the science we all know well enough today, Verne’s climate change wasn’t manmade; it happened because the Earth tilted off-axis (an idea that was lightly touched upon in his earlier aforementioned novel From the Earth to the Moon).
