What is Cli-Fi?
I get that question every time I bring up the subject. It isn’t clear what it is. To me climate fiction is not wrapped in the rules of sci-fi or fantasy or generalized fiction. Instead it is milieu writing of a sort, where the intersection between the social and physical world is deeply explored. The cli-fi shadowrun novel I was working on fits that bill. Of course, any real thought of cli-fi center around the world and the places we call home. Specifically it is a conversation about the changes that these places undergo as a result of technology, human intrusion, war, etc.
I need to spend more time writing cli-fi and publishing that sort of work (any sort of work, actually) in order to further establish myself in that writing world in a way where I feel like I belong there vs. in other literary worlds. The hardest thing for me to do as a writer is to write. After that it is to figure out where I belong as a writer.
Some Thoughts:
- Glanced at the numbering and realized for the first time how close I actually am to the year mark. Crazy.
- Not sure I am in a place of real happiness as of late. I have moments and those moments are often drowned out. Then again, I’ve always been a person of moments and those moments have always sustained me. In that fashion it is quite okay. On the other hand, it feels that my personal happiness more and more comes at the cost of those around me and I cannot stand for that.
- Maybe I can stand for that, because I really have no idea what else to do.