From cli-fi to psi-fi

When I tell people I’m working on a cli-fi novel, I’d say about 80% (alert: made-up statistic based on anecdotal and half-remembered evidence) ask, what’s cli-fi? I used to get excited about this lack of awareness around cli-fi as a genre, because I thought I’d invented something. But ever since sci-fi (and the more recent …

Nowadays, climate fiction writes itself

What’s life like after The Flood? In Corporate Torsos Need Not Apply, The Flood came and went 20 years ago. I started thinking about this in the ’90s. So it’s been a minute. I think we also had climate panic back then, but I can’t remember if we protested by throwing around fake blood. My …