It's 2020 and while the cli-fi genre is rising around the world, sci-fi still has a role to play in the culture at large.

How science fiction can play an important role in getting novelists and film directors to incorporate climate change and runaway global warming risks themes into their works

by Dan Bloom at the Cli-Fi  Report

It's 2020 and while the cli-fi genre is rising around the world, sci-fi still has a role to play in the culture at large.

 

Not with flying killer robots, exoplanets popping up all over the place, or social media users and bloggers influencing geopolitics. No, but by writing and reading climate-themed science fiction, the sci-fi community at large can be prepared for the 22nd century in 80 years.

Sci-fi novels about climate change in the past, the present and the near and far future need not be escapist entertainment and do not have to be shy about tackling climate change head on. Many top sci-fi writers in the last 10 years have been calling for this, too. It's full speed ahead for science fiction writers to grapple with change change issues head on, within the storied sci-fi tradition.

 

William Gibson has done, Jeff VanderMeer has done it, Kim Stanley Robinson has done it, Margaret Atwood has done it.

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