cli-fi

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪfaɪ/

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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