Facts about Cli-Fi

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   Kim Stanley Robinson's cli-fi novel The Ministry for the Future opens with a devastating heat wave in India that kills thousands of people.

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   Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy is frequently cited as a landmark work in cli-fi, blending genetic engineering dystopia with climate collapse themes.

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   Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019 for The Overstory, a cli-fi novel centered on trees and environmental destruction.

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   Barbara Kingsolver's cli-fi novel Flight Behavior, published in 2012, depicts monarch butterfly migration disrupted by climate change.

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   The term cli-fi, short for climate fiction, was popularized by journalist Dan Bloom in the early 2000s to describe novels addressing climate change.

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