Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City
Novelette 9,435 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"They were all hard at work, preparing for the long sleep. The sunlight-scattering sulfate aerosol constantly injected into the atmosphere since the time of the Geoengineering Generation had not been enough, providing little more than periodic acid rainfalls and a red-tinted sky. Temperatures were soon to become uninhabitable, and there was nowhere left to evacuate to."
Content warnings 1
death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.