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We’ve seen a rise in so-called ‘cli-fi’—what The New York Times has called “a tsunami of recent climate change literature.”
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We’ve seen a rise in so-called ‘cli-fi’—what The New York Times has called “a tsunami of recent climate change literature.”
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CarlosG commented on the word cli-fi
n. A literary or movie genre featuring dystopian stories of Earth affected by extreme climate change. Climate + fiction.
June 6, 2013
CarlosG commented on the word cli-fi
cli-fi
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Odds is the latest in what seems to be an emerging literary genre. Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.
—Angela Evancie, "So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?," National Public Radio, April 20, 2013
Cli-fi, or 'climate fiction,' describes a dystopian present, as opposed to a dystopian future. And don't call it 'science fiction.' Cli-fi is literary fiction.
—Husna Haq, "Climate change inspires a new literary genre: cli-fi," The Christian Science Monitor, April 26, 2013
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From "Soylent Green" in 1973 to "The Day After Tomorrow" in 2004, movies also began to venture into a new genre of science fiction that might be called "cli-fi" .. or climate fiction.
Cli-fi is also a new genre for novels and short stories.
—Dan Bloom, "The Next Big Genre: 'Cli-Fi' — Climate Fiction, in Which 'Mad Max' Meets 'The Road'," The Wrap, November 3, 2011
June 6, 2013
alexz commented on the word cli-fi
Spotted in a talk about climate change fiction
April 8, 2016
alexz commented on the word cli-fi
spotted this term again. seems that the term cli-fi has some sticking power.
November 15, 2020
plethora commented on the word cli-fi
I was so hoping this would be clitoris related
December 2, 2020
bilby commented on the word cli-fi
Try sigh-fi.
December 2, 2020