Taiwan Freelancer Dan Bloom on Climate Change and Cli Fi Fiction in the New York Times

here is NEW YORK TIMES STORY on cli fi

can you do something with it, expand, ask UK experts,  lots of UK
writers mentioned here




NYTimes today  news - USA College Classes Use Arts to
Brace for Climate Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/education/using-the-arts-to-teach-how-to-prepare-for-climate-crisis.html?hpw&rref=us&_r=0

New York Times-1 分鐘前
... of the mushrooming subgenre of speculative fiction known as
climate fiction, or cli-fi, novels like “Odds Against Tomorrow,” by
Nathaniel Rich, ...

Using the Arts to Teach How to Prepare for Climate Crisis

New York Times-4 小時前
... of the mushrooming subgenre of speculative fiction known as
climate fiction, or cli-fi, novels like “Odds Against Tomorrow,” by

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dan Bloom <danbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I reached out and asked Adam Trexler what the functions and uses
> of cli fi novels might be, he replied from his office in Oregon:
>
> "Climate change literature may warn about the dangers of disastrous
> global warming -- e.g. "adding to the climate debate". Its more
> important function is to help us understand what it means to live in
> an era when climate change is already upon us, when its disastrous
> effects are accumulating, and when we seem unable to address it in any
> comprehensive way.'
>
> "Climate fiction has been written by authors who have won every major
> literary prize," he said, adding: "Many novelists who have written
> about climate are the most highly, critically regarded of our era:
> Doris Lessing, JG Ballard, Will Self, TC Boyle, Jonathan Franzen,
> Maggie Gee, Barbara Kingsolver, and Jeanette Winterson, to name but a
> few. [I've compiled] a bibliography of over 300 climate change novels.
> Of course there are science fiction novels, too, both simplistic and
> highly sophisticated (see the novels by Kim Stanley Robinson and Paolo
> Bacigalupi)."
>
> Trexler, who wrote a long and important essay about cli fi novels in
> 2010, is currently putting the finishing touches to an academic book
> he has written for UVA Press, titled ''Anthropocene Fictions." The
> book will be the first comprehensive study of climate change novels,
> and will be sure to finds readers around the world.