Cli-Fi Is All the Rage
By Kieran Cooke /
Climate News Network
LONDONIts some time in the not too distant future. The American mid-west has turned into a dust bowl. Birds are dropping out of the sky. Cities are encapsulated in domes so that people can breathe clean, if recycled, air.
Billions of refugees, victims of drought and famine, are on the move. The streets are full of violent gangs and human traffickers. Pandemics are breaking out.
Welcome to a new literary genreclimate fiction, or cli-fi.
Some of it might be sensational, some of it not exactly great literature, and some downright depressing, but theres little doubting cli-fis growing popularity.
Cli-fialong with its elder brother sci-fiis now considered part of modern literatures classification system. Though some titles make only a passing reference to climate change, while others are more concerned with murder, mayhem and sex than with global warming, others are more thoughtful, science-based works. ...................(more)
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