Sci-Fi & Fantasy Girlz discussion

Reading this article on "cli-fi": fiction about climate change, http://grist.org/climate-energy/clima....

Kim Stanley Robinson is cited as the seminal "cli-fi" writer, and Atwood is given a mention. I'd add Sherri Smith's "Orleans," but I'm having trouble coming up with any other female writers. Any suggestions anyone? Or is "cli-fi" a silly fad we shouldn't bother reading?

I think that name is silly but I love Kim Stanley Robinson and he (by the way, he is a he) is so worth reading.



I haven't read it but from its description Butler's Parable of the Sower may fit the bill. I'll keep my eye out but I still hate that name. Climapunk sounds so much cooler (like a little kid I am very fond of sticking punk to any genre just to make it sound cool). :P

Good timing. I just ordered "Parable of the Sower," which I haven't read.

"Climapunk" is wonderful! "Climapunk" it is from now on.

Plus, when I look at "cli" I can't help but read it "clit" before I do a double take and read it correctly. Before I opened this thread I thought it was going to be some sort of super feminist sci fi or something like that. :P

Alicja wrote: "Plus, when I look at "cli" I can't help but read it "clit" before I do a double take and read it correctly. Before I opened this thread I thought it was going to be some sort of super feminist sci ..."

I made the same mistake, though it didn't seem to raise my hackles for some reason...

In any case, "clima" does seem like it has more alliterative potential than "cli" as a category name. Plus, it's less likely to get confused with ladybits... though I guess folks could think it's short for "climax" which has a comparable--if more egalitarian--innuendo.... "Climapunk" does have a ring to it, but it seems like it would focus on a particular subgenre of

Climageddon Fiction?
Post-Temperate Reality?
Ecopocolypic Romance?

Haha! Love those!

And there are already stories that would fit each sub-genre. We need to spread Climapunk around and replace Cli-fi with it since I doubt Cli-fi is a term that would really stick.

Climaxpunk, definitely!

Love those, Gary!