Author: Juhea Kim
Juhea Kim’s 2024 climate fiction work “A Love Story from the End of the World,” turns the climate catastrophe inward, offering ten stories where environmental collapse is felt in the fragile interiors of the human experience.
The short stories in this book imagine a familiar world where ecological collapse is a lived reality. Global cities are sealed inside domes to survive toxic air. Humans drift across ruined landscapes on mobile arks. Islands become landfills for the waste of richer nations.
Yet Kim keeps her focus trained on the human scale, writing about how people continue to reach for life and one another even as the ground beneath becomes less stable.
They are all love stories, though not in the traditional sense. Some explore romance and longing, others center on family bonds, friendship, or the connection between humans and the natural world.
