cli-fi

These books have been labelled "cli-fi," but chances are that the name won't stick.

On the home site you can scroll through the growing database of cli-fi and other eco-fiction tropes.

Not necessarily speculative in nature, works of cli-fi may take place in the present day world we know or in the near future.

Cli-fi has a long way to go, however, before it becomes as popular as the bestselling classes of crime, history or romance, say book agents.

Her novel Carbon Dreams was published in 2001, long before the term cli-fi was coined to describe the increasing number of novels concerned with climate change.

As an example of the growing subgenre of speculative fiction known as climate fiction or Cli-fi, Finitude has begun to appear as a text on university syllabi for courses examining climate change in fiction.