Tag Archives: cli-fi

Robinson’s Cli-Fi Predicts a Grim Future

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2026

In his novel “New York 2140” Robinson rants about how his climate change warnings fall on deaf ears.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 | Comments closed

Butler’s Theology in Parable of the Sower

By Robin Bates | Published: August 27, 2022

Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” shows new ways of imagining God.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, Darwinian evolution, dystopian lit, Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower, Religion | Comments closed

Read to Grapple with Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2020

Sian Cain uses literature to grapple with her decision, in light of climate change, not to have children.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Afterland, Amina Cain, Amitav Ghosh, Avni Doshi, Barbara Pym, burnt Sugar, childbearing, Children, Children of Men, climate change, climate fiction, Cormac McCarthy, Cygnet, D. H. Lawrence, David Wallace-Wells, Doris Lessing, Drowned World, Elena Ferrante, Fleishmann Is in Trouble, Future Home of the Living God, Indelicacy, J.G. Ballard, Jenny Offill, Lauren Beukes, Louise Erdrich, Lydia Millet, Margaret Atwood, Mark OConnell, Melissa Broder, Notes from an Apocalypse, Ottessa Moshfegh, Overstory, P.D. James, Pisces, Rachel Cusk, Richard Powers, Road Not Taken, Season Butler, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Uninhabitable Earth, weather, When It Happens, Year of Rest and Relaxation | Comments closed

Literature and Climate Change

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2016

Thoughts about the genre label “cli-fi” and an annotated list of past posts about literature and climate change.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged climate change, climate fiction, genre | Comments closed

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