This read-along event, held during Unearthing the Present in May 2022 and recorded in the images and film below, presented a collage of writing by climate fiction authors from all over the world. Short synopses of selected books were read in chronological order according to their fictive position in time. The artist duo Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann suggest that these fictional constructions have the potential to appear as trustworthy mirrors of current cultural atmospheres—and can serve as indices and symptoms of the present, or echoes of today. As archetypal vibrancies of deep time and a future imagined as pre-traumatic anticipation of catastrophe, they preempt the coming world in disarray.