Kim Stanley Robinson spends his days inventing fictional versions of a future where the climate has changed. In 2005’s “Forty Signs of Rain,” an epochal storm called Tropical Storm Sandy floods most of Washington, D.C. He considers himself a science-fiction writer, but also says that books set in the future need to take a changing climate into consideration or risk coming across as fantasy. Books by Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver are often included in the emerging category. In general, cli-fi steers clear of the space-opera wing of science fiction and tends to be set in a not-too-distant, largely recognizable future.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 06, 2020 15:59 UTC