New sci-fi books drown us in the terrors of climate change
Cli-fi — coming soon to a planet near you
25 January 2021 - 19:48
The awful attraction of climate-based science fiction, or “cli-fi”, is that it’s only borderline fiction. In real time we are witnesses to the formative aspects of the story, though we don’t want to believe what we see. Good cli-fi serves a vital purpose: literature may help to shake us from ignorance, indifference or inaction...
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