Amazon Original Series launches a cli-fi short story collection featuring 7 top American authors

Amazon Original Series launches a cli-fi short story collection featuring 7 top American authors

What is cli-fi?

A new literary genre that is rising fast in these post-IPCC Report times...

Emily Birnbaum at @thehill writes for The Hill website -- @birnbaum_e -- beneath a headline that reads: ''Amazon launches a ''cli-fi'' series of short stories about some ‘possible tomorrows’''...

See also earlier news here:
https://northwardho.blogspot.com/2018/10/warmer-new-amazon-published-collection.html

Amazon Original Stories, an Amazon Publishing imprint, has launched a cli-fi short story collection about "possible tomorrows" in a United States ravaged by climate change.

The series, called "Warmer," includes seven cli-fi short stories that explore fictional stories about characters fighting to survive despite rising temperatures, floods, ice storms and rising sea levels.

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“'Warmer' is our first collection of topical fiction, an area where we plan to keep expanding next year with collections of socially-attuned suspense stories, tales of dating after #MeToo, and more," Original Stories’ editorial director Julia Sommerfeld told Porter Anderson in an interview with Publishing Perspectives.

Good timing? Although conceived more than two years ago, the collection launched only a few weeks after an IPCC United Nations report warned that the world might be on a path toward catastrophic climate change if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t cut dramatically by 2030.

Each short story in "Warmer" takes place in a U.S. state.

"At The Bottom of New Lake" tells the story of a Cape Cod girl learning about the world before an enormous flood washed away its remnants, while "Boca Raton" explores a girl in Florida who discovers "heartbreaking evidence of an irreversibly changing earth," according to the story  summaries on Amazon.