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OVERVIEW

Cli-Fi stands for climate fiction. Cli-fi is an emerging subgenre of dystopian fiction set in the near future, in which climate change wreaks havoc on an otherwise familiar planet. Cli-fi has attracted literary authors like Ian McEwan and Barbara Kingsolver. To read more about Cli-Fi, see the summary by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow in Dissent or the Wikipedia entry on Climate Fiction.

Samples of Cli-Fi books are available at http://clifibooks.com.


REVIEWS

Michael Svoboda, October 22, 2014: A Review of Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) Cinema … Past and Present. This is the first in a series of five. See here.


NEW RELEASES

Naomi Oreske and Erik Conway published the concise summary of “The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future” in July 2014. The book provides a very realistic scenario of the transition out of the Holocene that we have initiated in the late 19th and the 20th century, and it describes one possible trajectory leading to the complete collapse of the North Atlantic culture and global civilization. Considering the most recent scientific results published in May and June 2014, the perspective may be too conservative and the transition to the post-Holocene with out western civilization may take place much faster than anticipated by the authors.