Cli-Fi

CONTENTS: Jim Clarke: J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World (1962) - Psycho-Geographical Cli-Fi - Thomas H. Ford: Max Frisch's Man in the Holocene (1980) - Geological Cli-Fi - Mark Anderson: Ignacio Brandão's And Still the Earth (1981) - Political Cli-Fi - Thomas H. Ford: George Turner's The Sea and Summer (1987) - Urban Dystopian Cli-Fi - Dana Phillips: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (2003-2013) - Post-Apocalyptic Cli-Fi - M. Isabel Pérez-Ramos: Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009) - Biopunk Cli-Fi - Antonia Mehnert: Steven Amsterdam's Things We Didn't See Coming (2009) - Riskscape Cli-Fi - Axel Goodbody: Ilija Trojanow's The Lamentations of Zeno (2011/2016) - Prophetic Cli-Fi - Kiu-Wai Chu: Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2014) - Adventure Cli-Fi - Stef Craps: Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter (2011) - Psychic Cli-Fi - Adeline Johns-Putra: Maggie Gee's The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004) - State of the Nation Cli-Fi - Adam Trexler: T. C. Boyle's A Friend of the Earth (2000) - Activism in Cli-Fi - Chris Pak: Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capitol Trilogy (2004-2007) - Science and Politics in Cli-Fi - Sylvia Mayer: Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour (2012) - Class and Religion in Cli-Fi - Hannes Bergthaller: Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow (2013) - Risk and Rationality in Cli-Fi - Alexa Weik von Mossner: Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid (2009) - Documentary Cli-Fi - Alexa Weik von Mossner: Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - Apocalyptic Cli-Fi - Greg Garrard: Michael Crichton's State of Fear (2004) - Denialist Cli-Fi - Terry Gifford: Liz Jensen's The Rapture (2009) - Thriller Cli-Fi - Bradon Smith: Will Self 's The Book of Dave (2006) - Satirical Cli-Fi - Richard Kerridge: Ian McEwan's Solar (2010) - British Comic Cli-Fi - Lieven Ameel: Antti Tuomainen's The Healer (2013) - Nordic Crime Cli-Fi - David Whitley: Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee's Frozen (2013) - Fantasy Cli-Fi - Reinhard Hennig: Jostein Gaarder's The World According to

Axel Goodbody is Emeritus Professor of German and European Culture at the University of Bath. He has published widely on literary representations of nature and environment and on ecocritical theory. He was a founding member of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment and its President from 2004 to 2006. Current projects include editing a special issue of Resilience on literary and historical stories of energy and co-authoring a transnational ecocritical analysis of climate change scepticism.

«This is a rich, timely collection of essays that makes a unique contribution to the environmental humanities. It does important work defining and charting the breadth and variety of cli-fi and is sure to appeal to those exploring cultural responses to the Anthropocene.» (Dr Astrid Bracke, Lecturer in English Literature, HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands)







«Goodbody and Johns-Putra's Companion will prove an indispensable guide to contemporary climate fiction for writers, scholars and critics alike. Its 29 chapters, five devoted to film, the remainder to the novel, range from genre science fiction through to literary modernism and young adult fiction, drawn from across Europe and North America, Australia and Korea. Invaluable.» (Andrew Milner, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Monash University, author of Locating Science Fiction)