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Susan Earlam's avatar

Hi lovely! Thanks ever so much for sharing... I've definitely classed Earthly Bodies as cli-fi in the past. It definitely straddles the ecohorror/climate fiction fence. I tend to say, it's like a warning from the future (and past) of what could happen. Nature will always win out in the end. We may not be here in times to come, living on earth, but a version of "nature" will.

Have you read The Overstory? I'd say that book is more firmly in the cli-fi space, if you want another good example.

Also Annihilation, the climate/environment is a huge element of that story and the rest of the Area X books.

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Hayley Dunlop's avatar

Thanks, Susan! Will definitely check those out. I watched Annihilation but never read it. Bloody terrifying! But I think about it often.

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Susan Earlam's avatar

The book is quite different, more insidious/curious, perhaps not quite as horrific. IMHO obviously.

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Sarah Shotts's avatar

Curb is the American spelling!

For cli fi I’d highly recommend A Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus. He’s a black author and seeing the Africa. diaspora represented in the near future (in space) is very powerful. The sequel just came out and I started it yesterday.

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Adam Dunlop's avatar

Curb. Ha!

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