BOOK REVIEW: Cli-fi coming soon to a planet near you Two new science-fiction books hope to wake us up to the frightening reality of what climate change means 21 January 2021 - 05:06 David Gorin Picture: 123RF/LILKAR
The awful attraction of climate-based science fiction, or “cli-fi”, is that it’s only borderline fiction. In real time we are witnesses to the formative aspects of the story, though we don’t want to believe what we see. Good cli-fi serves a vital purpose: literature may help to shake us from ignorance, indifference or inaction.
Two new novels do that, potently. Kim Stanley Robinson’s