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Climate fiction (sometimes shortened to cli-fi) is literature that deals with climate change. [1] Generally speculative in nature but inspired by climate science , works of climate fiction may take place in the world as we know it , in the near future , or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.
Regions where oceanic or subtropical highland climates (Cfb, Cfc, Cwb, Cwc) are found. An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with ...
Most extrasolar planets in fiction are similar to Earth—referred to in the Star Trek franchise as Class M planets—and serve only as settings for the narrative. [1] [2] One reason for this, writes Stephen L. Gillett [Wikidata] in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, is to enable satire. [3]
As the world burns, readers increasingly look to climate fiction for hope, predictions, and actionable solutions. But can the genre really be a manual for useful change?
“The Deep Sky” is a smart, emotionally mature, quick-paced climate fiction space whodunit that I already wanted to read again before I even finished it. Show comments Advertisement
Depictions of Venus as a lush, verdant paradise, an oceanic planet, or fetid swampland, often inhabited by dinosaur-like beasts or other monsters, became common in early pulp science fiction, particularly between the 1930s and 1950s. Some other stories portrayed it as a desert, or invented more exotic settings.
The following is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place significantly or partially underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, such as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty ...
Society often looks to culture to try and make some sense of the world’s problems—and "cli-fi" is doing just that.