Cli-fi
//ˈklaɪfaɪ// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A subgenre of ecofiction with issues about climate change as the main focus. uncountable
"Perhaps the most high-profile cli-fi author is Margaret Atwood, whose 2009 The Year of the Flood features survivors of a biological catastrophe also central to her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, a book Atwood sometimes preferred to call "speculative fiction"."
Example
More examples"Perhaps the most high-profile cli-fi author is Margaret Atwood, whose 2009 The Year of the Flood features survivors of a biological catastrophe also central to her 2003 novel Oryx and Crake, a book Atwood sometimes preferred to call "speculative fiction"."
Etymology
From climate + fiction (modeled after sci-fi). Coined by Dan Bloom in 2006.
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