climate fiction

American  

[klahy-mit fik-shuhn] / ˈklaɪ mɪt ˌfɪk ʃən /

noun

1. a genre of fiction, encompassing both speculative and realist works, in which climate change and other environmental concerns are major themes.

---

Etymology

Origin of climate fiction

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Shannon Falkner, an English teacher at Chatham High School in Chatham, N.J., said her freshman English students have written climate fiction, or “cli-fi.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

The Terraformers, refreshingly, is the opposite of the dystopian, we’re-all-doomed chiller that’s become so common in climate fiction.

From Scientific American • Jan. 8, 2023

Fix, the “solutions lab” at the environmental magazine Grist, recently announced the three winners and nine finalists of its second Imagine 2200 climate fiction short story contest.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2022

Call it climate fiction, or dystopian, or literary fiction, or an adventure story – I want it to be all of those things.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022

Among the most recently anointed genres is one called climate fiction, or cli-fi, in theory a subset or relative of the speculative or dystopic.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2021