climate fiction
Warming-themed speculative novels
Climate fiction is a genre of speculative fiction exploring the effects of climate change on human civilization and the natural world.
Often abbreviated cli-fi, it encompasses dystopian scenarios, near-future extrapolations, and stories of adaptation or catastrophe: The novel imagines Miami underwater by 2050.
Climate fiction ranges from literary to pulp, from cautionary to hopeful.
- ecofictionNature-focused narrative genre
- AnthropoceneProposed human-impact epoch
- nature writingGenre depicting landscapes and ecology
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- geoengineeringIntentional large-scale environmental modification
near future · dystopia · extinction · apocalypse · water scarcity · sea level rise · melting ice caps · terraforming · migration · Margaret Atwood · protest · novel · seas · biodiversity · mass extinction · displacement · global warming · extreme weather
- sci-fiStar Wars, sci-fi, Blade Runner 2049, aliens, Star Trek
- speculative fictionsci-fi, dystopia, fantasy, futurism, utopia
- book worldfantasy novels, graphic novels, memoir, sci-fi, thriller
- Cli-Ficli-fi, ecofiction, eco-thriller, near future, anthropocene
- eco-fictioncli-fi, eco-thriller, solarpunk, eco-horror, species loss
- ecocriticismnature writing, pastoral, nature poetry, ecofeminism, eco-feminism
climate fictionspace opera
Dramatic sci-fi in cosmos
cyberpunk · hard science fiction · techno-thriller · sword and sorcery · high fantasy
climate fictionescapist fiction
Entertainment through imaginary worlds