Australian author James Bradley on cli-fi as a useful marketing tool for contemporary novels

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"You know, people talk about cli-fi. You know, it's a useful marketing term, [and] as a term to help people understand what's going on with [climate-themed novels] at the moment, I ... think it's [a very useful term...]''

By the way, there was a SF novel with a very similar cover published in the USA in 2003 and written by Mark Budz. Was James aware of this or was his Australian publisher aware of this when they decided to use that title? Book titles and movie titles cannot be copyrighted, so there is nothing wrong with two novels having the same title or similar cover designs.


LINK TO 2003 COVER of USA-written CLADE in 2003:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade_(novel)

Author	Mark Budz

In the 2003 novel in the USA titlde Clade, the Ecocaust, an environmental disaster, causes major problems such as rising sea levels and additional strains on human resources. Although civilization recovers from this disaster, they do so at the expense of their previous freedoms. "Polycorps" develop from governments and corporations. The wonders of biotech introduce a new class system where human beings have been socially engineered at the molecular level through a process called "clading." This "clading" process places entire socioeconomic or ethnic groups made to be biologically predisposed to live in particular communities. If a person enters a community that they have not been claded to, the consequences could be devastating, resulting in sickness or death. Although it is not intentionally racist, businesses and retail outlets using this clading process to keep away the riffraff, will simply screen out clientele below a certain prosperity level. Therefore, a black market exists enabling people to buy the right biotech to inhibit the "pherions" in their systems to be placed in a certain clade.