What is ‘cli-fi’ and why is it so hot right now?

What is ‘cli-fi’ and why is it so hot right now?

Are you a fan of The Overstory by Richard Powers? Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler? Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood? Then you’re a fan of cli-fi. What is cli-fi? Climate fiction. Did you think it was going to be something else? Cli-fi is skirting very close to clit-fic, innit. But that’s a story for another time. Climate fiction places humans under stress due to a climate-changed Earth. Very often cli-fi books have a science fiction l…