Science Fiction and Climate Change
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
Science Fiction and Climate Change (2020), published by Liverpool University Press, has been cited 17 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 10% of works in its field and year.
Full narrative
Science Fiction and Climate Change by Andrew Milner and J.R. Burgmann was published by Liverpool University Press in 2020. Conceptually, the work connects to Skepticism, Climate change, Materialism, Subject (documents) and History.
OpenAlex records 17 citations. That places it in the top 10% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2023 with 5 citing works. Notable citing venues include Palgrave studies in animals and literature, The German Quarterly and American Journal of Cultural Sociology. scite has classified 1 citing statement as supporting its claims, and none as contradicting. The citing works include 11 book chapters and 6 journal articles. They come from 9 countries, led by France, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Open Library reports a combined count of 2 reading logs and catalog editions. Its subject matter aligns with Climate action among the Sustainable Development Goals.
The latest English Wikipedia check verified 3 article–work reference matches. These are references or bibliography entries, which may include other editions of the same work; they do not measure readership.
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Crossref Event Data: historical records unavailable locally—not zero events. The public API was retired on 23 April 2026. Other attention sources may still be shown.
Inferred roles
Heuristic signals from citation composition, usage, and media activity. Learn about all roles ↗
Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.001.0001
- OA status: Hybrid
- OA source: OAPEN
- OA basis: OAPEN record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OA verification: Claimed OA, not in DOAB
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.001.0001
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61715
Reader reception Books
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LibraryThing:
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- 🏆 British Science Fiction Association Award Shortlist (Best Non-Fiction, 2020)
Citation context scite
- Total: 1
- Supporting: 1
- Mentioning: 0
- Contradicting: 0
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of 17 citing works. 58.8% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1)
- University of Nottingham (1)
- Duke University (1)
- University of Wollongong (1)
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1)
- Swansea University (1)
- Université Paris Nanterre (1)
- Ministère du travail, de l'emploi et de l'insertion (1)
- Architecture Urbanisme Société : Savoirs, Enseignement, Recherche (1)
- Samsun University (1)
- Shoolini University (1)
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1)
- University of Milano-Bicocca (1)
- Joshua Bulleid (5)
- Carsten Walther (1)
- Patrycja Rojek (1)
- Simone Turco (1)
- Nicolas Schmid (1)
- Lorenzo Giuseppe Zaffaroni (1)
- Jessica Norledge (1)
- Beatrice John (1)
- Isabella Hermann (1)
- Anne L Melano (1)
- Walter Kahlenborn (1)
- Fritz Reußwig (1)
- Lorenzo Domaneschi (1)
- Soline Nivet (1)
- Adrien Frenay (1)
- Wiebke Lass (1)
- Kevser Ateş (1)
- Martin Peter (1)
- Lucia Quaquarelli (1)
- Nasser Dasht Peyma (1)
- Chris Pak (1)
- Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff (1)
- Maike Voss (1)
- Susan Thiel (1)
- Gianmarco Curio Navarini (1)
Open Science Signals PRISM
Open peer review and repository accessibility signals for this work.
Open Peer Review PRISM
- Status: No explicit PRISM review record returned
- Interpretation: neutral signal — this does not mean the book had no peer review; only that PRISM returned no explicit title-level review metadata.
- Publisher context: Liverpool University Press
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
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Community engagement
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Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
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Library & Community Access Open Library
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Community Reach:
2 logs/editions ↗
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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex
Authors
- Andrew Milner First ORCID
- J.R. Burgmann
Concepts & topics OpenAlex
UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex
Citations OpenAlex
| Year | Title | Venue | DOI |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Iconic futures: temporal aesthetics and social imaginaries in Italian climate fiction | American Journal of Cultural Sociology | 10.1057/s41290-026-00289-9 |
| 2026 | High-end climate change risks for Germany: Adaptive capacity between incrementalism and transformative adaptation | GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society | 10.14512/gaia.35.3.10 |
| 2026 | From terra nullius to Silicon Valley: Tracing Utopian Thought in Theresia Enzensberger's Auf See (2022) | The German Quarterly | 10.1111/gequ.70048 |
| 2026 | GE Extended: Terraforming on Celestial Bodies | Springer climate | 10.1007/978-3-032-10095-5_13 |
| 2025 | The Myth of Pandora in Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) and Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) | Images The International Journal of European Film Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication | 10.14746/i.2025.39.48.3 |
| 2025 | Landscapes of ruins: Cultural atrophy and environmental collapse in The Road and WALL-E | ODÜ Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi (ODÜSOBİAD) | 10.48146/odusobiad.1730110 |
| 2025 | Themes in Eco-Literature | Unknown | 10.1007/978-981-96-5302-7_4 |
| 2024 | Walking with Narratives: Introduction to the English Edition | Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture. | 10.1007/978-3-031-73792-3_1 |
| 2024 | The Meat of the Matter, or the Neglect of Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Ecotopian Science Fiction | The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics/The International library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics | 10.1007/978-3-031-56802-2_11 |
| 2023 | The Critical Carnist Shift: Marge Piercy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Octavia E. Butler and the Critical Utopian Period | Palgrave studies in animals and literature | 10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2_6 |
| 2023 | L’Image au pied de la lettre. L’imagerie aménageuse au prisme de la (climate) fiction | Cahiers de la recherche architecturale urbaine et paysagère | 10.4000/craup.12561 |
| 2023 | The Speculative Politics of Meat: Utopia, Carnism, and Critical Animal Studies | Palgrave studies in animals and literature | 10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2_1 |
| 2023 | The Last Word in Gastronomy? Veganism, Ecocriticism, Pandemic Science Fiction and the Future | Palgrave studies in animals and literature | 10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2_9 |
| 2023 | Where’s the Beef? Kim Stanley Robinson’s Carnist Climate Change Catastrophes | Palgrave studies in animals and literature | 10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2_7 |
| 2022 | Environment | Research Online (University of Wollongong) | 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_35 |
| 2022 | Unreliability and Dystopian Refraction | Palgrave studies in language, literature and style | 10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2_6 |
| 2021 | Thought Experiment as Method: Science-Fiction and International Relations in the Anthropocene | Unknown | 10.1007/978-3-030-53014-3_23 |