Overview
Gripping tales of a planet in crisis: Canadian voices confront climate change. This anthology features culturally diverse Canadian writers exploring the impact of a planet in crisis. From rising sea levels to mass migrations, these stories transcend doomsday narratives, inspiring action in the face of indifference.
Explore perspectives on changing oceans, disappearing species, and the hubris of provoking Mother Earth. These stories of Climate Fiction (Cli-fi) feature perspectives by culturally diverse Canadian writers of short fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and futurist works.
For readers interested in climate fiction, environmental issues, and Canadian literature, CLI-FI offers a powerful and imaginative response to the greatest global crisis of our time.
Reviews
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Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change was a labor of love and a commitment to speak up about the risks and fixes for runaway global warming." —
San Diego Jewish World“In his introduction to this all-original set of (at times barely) futuristic tales, Meyer warns readers, ‘[The] imaginings of today could well become the cold, hard facts of tomorrow…’ Luckily, it’s also a vastly entertaining [book]. It appears there’s nothing like catastrophe to bring the best out in authors in describing the worst of humankind.” —
Publishers WeeklyWith the world facing the greatest global crisis of all time – climate change – personal and political indifference has wrought a series of unfolding complications that are altering our planet, and threatening our very existence. Reacting to the warnings sounded by scientists and thinkers, writers are responding imaginatively to the seriousness of changing ocean conditions, the widening disappearance of species, genetically modified organisms, increasing food shortages, mass migrations of refugees, and the hubris behind our provoking Mother Earth herself. These stories of Climate fiction (Cli-fi) feature perspectives by writers of short fiction, science fiction, fantasy and futurist works, and transcend traditional doomsday stories by inspiring us to overcome the bleak forecasted results of our current indifference.
“Cli-fi is…imagining the long-term effects of climate change [and]
Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change gathers 17 widely varied stories in a collection that presents an urgent, imagined message from the future.” —
Globe and Mail“Climate change is no fiction, but a new short story anthology attempts to bring an imaginative response to one of the world’s greatest crises.” —Steve Paikin, TVO's The Agenda
Author Biography
Bruce Meyer is author and/or editor of over fifty books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, and an associate of Victoria College in the University of Toronto where he teaches in the Vic One Program. He was inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie. Dan Bloom (Afterword) is a freelance writer, and the person who first coined Climate Fiction, or Cli-fi, as a new genre of fiction that touches in some way on the topic of climate change.
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