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Coming to Terms With Climate Fiction

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Coming to Terms With Climate Fiction

grrgyle@slrpnk.netM to ✍️ Writing@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 days ago

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Coming to Terms With Climate Fiction - Reactor

What once seemed like a subgenre of science fiction is actually much bigger

So I had it all wrong when I thought of “cli-fi” as a subset of sci-fi. The article makes a good case for normalising climate fiction - after all, climate change hasn’t been only speculative for a long time.

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Also linked in that article is Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction, which I haven’t finished reading yet, but looks to put racism and climate change in conversation. Just to pick one quote:

Cli-fi’s orientation toward the future would make sense if we thought that climate change, unlike racism, were still avoidable. The trouble is that it is not. The too-lateness, in fact, is why I started this essay.

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