Never Heard of Cli-Fi? Here Are 20 Books That'll Introduce You to the New Genre

Ian McEwan's Solar tells the story of a washed-up scientist, Dr. Michael Beard, who's become a shade of his former self. His participation in government climate-change research is a formality at best — until he stumbles into information that could reinvigorate his career and turn him into the hero who saves the world from itself.