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

In an eerie post-apocalyptic world, a calorie-seeking scavenger and a genetically engineered quasi-human slave cross paths in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl. Calories have become currency in this future ravaged by bio-engineered plagues, and bio-terrorism is a commonplace tool of corporate warfare. As both Anderson and Emiko begin to question their place in this society, they begin questioning the new world itself.