cli-fi

New and forthcoming environmental books

October 22, 2022 by John Yunker

Sadly there is not enough time for us here at EcoLit Books to read all the fine works submitted to us. Here are a few titles we’ve received over the …

Book Review: The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

October 23, 2015August 4, 2014 by Shel Graves

Read this in the heat of August — languorous, sweltering, submerged. It begins, “Soon it would be too hot.” J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World is a classic in the growing …

April 3, 2014 by John Yunker

I enjoyed this recent New York Times article on universities using fiction (or “cli-fi”) to teach climate change. I particularly enjoyed seeing our own University of Oregon represented. Go Ducks! …