cli-fi

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Etymology[edit]

From climate +‎ fiction (modeled after sci-fi). Coined by Dan Bloom in 2006.[1]

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cli-fi (uncountable)

  1. A subgenre of ecofiction with issues about climate change as the main focus.
    • 2013 May 31, Rodge Glass, “Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi'”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Perhaps the most high-profile cli-fi author is Margaret Atwood, whose 2009 The Year of the Flood features survivors of a biological catastrophe also central to her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, a book Atwood sometimes preferred to call "speculative fiction".
    • [2021 July 20, Sherryl Vint, “A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment”, in The MIT Press Reader‎[2]:
      The issue is so pressing that some have started to use the term “cli-fi” for climate fiction — but this faddish coinage obscures a longer history of sf’s engagement with the environment and leaves unexamined the question of why sf has proven such a valuable genre for thinking about environmental futures.]

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  1. ^ Jonathan Elmore, editor (2020), Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 2: “Dan Bloom is generally credited with coining the term, “cli-fi,” as early as 2006 […]”
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