"Cli-Fi" books at EFPL

A recent story broadcast on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition received a lot of attention from book fans. The story was about a growing literary sub-genre nicknamed "Cli-Fi" in honor of its primary subject matter: climate change.

Over the past decade, more and more writers have begun to set their novels and short stories in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter. The genre has come to be called climate fiction — "cli-fi," for short.

The sub-genre differs from the genre of dystopian fiction, which is a genre that explores the world from a futuristic and often post-apocalyptic perspective. Rather, "cli-fi" novels focus their attention on a world feeling the often brutal effects of significant changes to their climate.

 Read the full story on NPR.

Titles in the Eager Free Public Library in the "cli-fi" sub-genre, at least according to NPR's list, include:

State of Fear by Michael Crichton (F Crichton)
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (F Kingsolver) - read our post about this title!
The Carbon Diaries: 2017 by Saci Lloyd (YA - coming soon!)

Keep an eye out for Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich (due out this year) - the novel that prompted the NPR story and whose plotline will sound strikingly familiar to many Manhattanites who lived through Hurricane Sandy late last year.