Disruptions to the social and material foundations of global society produced by climate change are now ubiquitous and growing in severity. Writers and popular artists who aim to consider the human future face a narrative challenge: climate change is seemingly indefinite in duration, comprised of an incalculable number of inputs, and difficult to explicate through the traditional paradigm of protagonist and antagonist. How to speak about what’s coming? Dystopian fiction seems to offer a starting point. Climate may be understood as an intensifier of traditional hazards that dystopian artists and thinkers have long interrogated: plague, resource conflict, brutalized social control, and the perils of new technology. This course will review fictional, near future dystopias, interpolated by recent theoretical work on climate. Questions to be examined include: Does the traditional dichotomy between literary fiction and genre fiction remain salient in valuing future-facing texts? Have speculative forms like science fiction and dystopia acquired a new primacy ahead of "merely" literary works? Is the book-text alone still capable of mobilizing social action on subjects like climate change or is adaption to visual media now requisite? Must emotional potency come at the expense of scientific nuance? Is alarmism productive or unhelpful in climate fiction?