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.

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Etymology

Origin of climate fiction

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

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climate fiction

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

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

It felt as if we were already beginning to live through passages of a dystopian work of climate fiction.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2021