“I believe it’s helpful to have depictions of the world we want,” says Tory Stephens, climate fiction creative manager at Grist. “We’re trying to show that another world is possible.”Stephens leads an annual writing contest called “Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors.” Now in its fourth year, the contest seeks to prompt reflection and action on climate change. Climate fiction is a collective endeavor. Climate fiction can prompt rich discussions through enlightening questions like “What does hope look like?” or “What does a decolonized future look like?” And while journalism can ask these questions, fiction actually builds out these worlds to show them in all their glorious detail. In the same way that historical fiction can give us a new understanding of past events and shift our perspective, climate fiction can do the same for possible futures.